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...Iceland was in hand (see p. 17). From where they were New York was 3,900 miles away, but Norway's Nazi-occupied Bergen was only 1,800 miles, Scotland's port of Glasgow only 1,600 miles, and Berlin a mere 2,800 miles as the bomber flies. The Western Hemisphere had stretched once more. The President had taken another great step...
...Eagle Squadron drew its first blood last week. In a daylight sweep over German-occupied French territory, these U.S. fliers who had volunteered into the R.A.F. had been ordered to cling to the wings of a bomber squadron, and not run jauntily off for dogfights...
...this is part of a selfish, thoroughly practical form of U.S. aid-to-Britain. The Army pilots assigned to delivery duty are members of a new Army Ferry Command. Under the U.S. Army's famed Colonel Robert Olds, a big-bomber fiend who started out as a private in World War I, this organization has complete responsibility for delivering all U.S.-made British aircraft in Canada. While speeding up deliveries, the new system will also give Army pilots priceless experience in flying big bombers. Because so many U.S. bombers are going to Great Britain, the Army itself is woefully...
...falcon dropping on its prey whistles like a dive-bomber, kills its victim in mid-air with one powerful rake of its talons, sometimes swoops to catch the dead bird before it hits ground. Trained, a falcon will fly free (at 100 m.p.h.) to pounce on game birds. The U.S. can use falcons, as other armies cannot, without endangering its own homing pigeons. Reason: the U.S. has developed night-flying homing pigeons...
...Major Stanley Umstead, the Air Corps's crack, cigar-chewing test pilot, climbed aboard; his crew of six trailed after him. Stanley Umstead started the four engines from left to right, kicking up a great williwaw of dust as he turned them up. He wheeled the Gargantuan bomber down the field, swung her into the wind, gave her the coal. Rolling hugely down the runway, she picked up her skirts slowly. But she was off, wobbling a bit-her feel was still strange to the man at the controls-in a run of 2,000 feet. Lightened...