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...single bomber delivered to Britain by air has been shot down by German action, even though the planes used to fly unarmed and unarmored. But last week a plane carrying eleven Atlantic Ferry Command pilots and eleven crewmen back to America for another batch of deliveries crashed, presumably of engine failure, on a lonely hillside in Britain. Four days later another crashed on the takeoff, and twelve more Ferry Command pilots and nine more crewmen were killed...
...year-old Roy E. Buckley have been crammed with such offhand heroics. To his mother and friends in Canada, Buckley wrote of dogfights over Norway, France, Britain, of five Germans he shot down in one fight, of a 35-hour flight from Britain to Singapore in a U.S.-built bomber, of his Distinguished Flying Cross and other decorations, of his promotion to Acting Squadron Leader...
Last week, at Detroit's Rackham (municipal) Golf Course, the Brown Bomber was host to 186 of the best Negro golfers in the U.S., professional and amateur. They had been invited to compete in the newest tournament on the colored calendar, the Joe Louis Open. The Champion had sponsored sport ventures before. He sank $30,000 in the maintenance of the Brown Bombers, a nomadic, ne'er-do-well softball team. He had sponsored horse shows, bowling teams...
...dangerously. Now, only 23, he had broken himself test-piloting a big new four-motored bomber...
Died. Bruno Mussolini, 23; in a bomber crash near Pisa...