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...TIME [Feb. 9] there is a critical article about me bringing my dog and 13 pieces of luggage on an American bomber to America...
That Air Force actually taught its teacher, Adolf Hitler, some tricks. In skillful use of the torpedo bomber, it excelled anything the Germans had devised. In speed of maintenance, fueling and supply far from home base, it suggested the solution of problems which had seemed formidable to the Germans. In widespread yet effective dispersion of effort, it gave the Germans something to ponder...
...great-hearted stand in Bataan, studied with savage satisfaction the Navy's detailed announcement of the raid on the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. And the great U.S. industrial machine hummed ever faster in its war of production. In Baltimore a test pilot took up the first bomber powered by a Ford-built motor. Americans, unbeatable at making things, were beginning to make the things they needed. The nation grimly heeded WPBoss Donald M. Nelson's statement that the "golden months" were gone, but that "ten silver months" were left...
...pilot pointed his failing plane at the carrier's deck, glided in for a crash landing. Men on the deck could see the bomber's crew, see that all but the pilot were dead. A gunner sent a burst into the bomber. It fell away, clipped one of the carrier planes, crashed into...
Joan is concerned with the present fortunes of Occupied France. Hero Henreid is a Free French R.A.F. pilot shot down near Paris with his bomber crew; Heroine Morgan is a Parisian barmaid who, like a latter-day St. Joan, sacrifices herself that the R.A.F.ers may escape to England...