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...last week. When the returns came in for the 24-hour attack, by night over Germany, by day over northern France, the effort proved costly. On its own count the R.A.F. lost 52 planes; on Berlin's count, 60 planes. Thirty-seven of them were bombers, four more than the highest German night-bomber losses during last May's air battle of Britain. But the figures told nothing of the relative profit & loss of the British raids...
...ready to challenge Champion Red Cochrane (now in the Navy) for the world's welterweight title. Robinson's next engagement: a return match with Marty Servo, Nov. 10 in Philadelphia. Servo is one of the three fighters who have lasted ten rounds against the Boogie-Woogie Bomber...
Most poignant sequence: the Crew Room-it might be any American college locker room before the big game-after the bomber crews have dressed and gone...
...breweries, you know." "O.K., let's go down and smell its breath." Over the target the mood changes. Flak (antiaircraft) and tracers zoom upward in great, searing arcs, phosphorescent balls of fire in the black night. Starting slowly, they pick up tremendous speed, whoof past the bomber like heaven-bent rockets...
Target's cast is unlisted, but some are recognizable, others known: Air Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, Commander in Chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command; "Speedy" Powell, the blond, curly-topped Wing Commander (O.B.E., D.S.O.), who led the first over-the-Alps raid on Venice; the rugged Group-Captain (D.S.O., D.F.C. and Bar), a famed pilot, now grounded, who led the first raid on Sylt. The crew of F for Freddie, which devoted three months to making the film, have made more than 200 flights over Germany...