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...said Captain A. P. Miceli, "but we don't enlist women. Did you mean you want to be an Army nurse?" "No!" said she, "and I don't want to be an infantrywoman and carry a rifle, either. I want to be a hostess on an Army bomber...
...Marshal Göring was reported visiting there to calm the populace. Fact is, as frankly acknowledged by the authoritative British weekly The Aeroplane: "There is no real defense against night bombing." At the coast and around London and other populous centres, Britain has balloon barrages which force enemy bombers above 20,000 ft. Inside these, searchlights and anti-aircraft batteries take up the job. The British have found, as have others, that sending up more than two or three fighters against a night-bomber attack is as likely to result in fighter collisions as in destruction of the enemy...
...bomb on a rack that can be extended as the dive is begun. Reason for extension: bombs released in a dive pick up speed faster than the ship, have been known to poke their noses into the whirling prop and blow dive bomber and crew to bits. The extension guides the bomb out of the propeller...
Playfair became a Group Captain in 1923 and in 1928 went to Palestine. For his work there he was made Air Commodore in 1930 and sent to India as Chief Staff Officer. He was put in command of the bomber squadron at Andover in 1933, made an Air Vice Marshal the following year the first man ever to reach that rank at 44. Three months ago he said to his men: "Keep fit, keep cheerful, and above all fight against boredom. These quiet times are nearing their...
Last week something as tenuous and perhaps as fleeting as the shadow of a bomber's wing spread over Capitol Hill in Washington. It was an uneasy feeling that all is not well with the U. S. Army and Navy. Congress has made no serious bones about letting the Army and Navy have upwards of $3,500,000,000 in this and the next fiscal year. But the new question was: How good a job are the President, the generals and the admirals doing with the money? By week's end the U. S. press, many...