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...Methods. Last week the British let newsmen see how the R.A.F. is steeling itself against Blitz resumption. For the first time reporters were taken up in R.A.F. night bomber-fighters (American-built Douglas Havocs...
First member of British royalty to fly the Atlantic in a bomber, H.R.H. Prince George Edward Alexander Edmund, Duke of Kent, 38, the youngest brother of King George VI, landed in Ottawa last week, where he was welcomed by the Earl of Athlone after a nine-hour hop in a four-engined, American-built Consolidated B-24 Liberator. Purpose: a six-week coast-to-coast tour inspecting the progress of the monster British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. In the R.A.F., the Duke holds the rank of Air Commodore on the staff of the Inspector General...
Near Cardington, Ohio, a British Lockheed bomber cracked up and burned. Two young U.S. Army Air Forces lieutenants died in her blackened hulk. Few miles away, on the Army's Patterson Field, another Lockheed, with the red-white-&-blue cockade of the R.A.F. on her camouflaged sides, ground-looped on a take-off and burned as her pilots skipped out of danger. At Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field four Douglas DB75 whisked in from the west in formation, were landed by their khaki-clad pilots as nice as you please...
...Polish-Americans whipped up a fervid campaign with drum-&-bugle corps, peasant songs, shouted refrains from Poland's national anthem (Poland's Not Yet Dead). From a Polish family in Manhattan came a pot with this message pasted inside: "Lots of luck to this bomber. Hope it gets Hitler...
...been deciphered (Leske sometimes wrote German shorthand); translated into rational language (Leske wrote a febrile Nazi slang); the entries dated, edited and rearranged. If, as Editor Riess (who knew Leske) believes, the diary is authentic, it is the first full-length self-portrait in English of the Nazi bomber's mind...