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...jumped by 20 Nazi Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulfs. Down to the bombers' aid dived an escort of P-40 Warhawks. First Lieut. Charles Hall turned neatly inside two Focke-Wulfs, slapped a burst of tracers into the second plane, followed it down, saw it crash in a towering cloud of dust. Back at his base, Lieut. Hall received special congratulations from General Dwight D. Eisenhower. His Focke-Wulf was the first enemy plane to be shot down by the Negro fighter squadron commanded by Lieut. Colonel Benjamin O. Davis...
Then the many trucks took all the crews out to the planes, which were dispersed for acres. Shortly before taxi time the crews climbed aboard and the roar began which was the roar of numbers, and a dust cloud rose up which seemed to be the dust of a multitude on the desert...
Both the President and the delegates had reason to feel pleased. The conference had started off under a cloud of suspicion, brought about by the President's ban on the press. It ended with a considerable air of achievement, even under the heavy limits...
...testing his machine guns. He fired a 20-round burst, watching the feeder mechanisms. A voice shouted over the interphone: "You got him! Why don't you call out those attacks!" Mulvana looked up just in time to see a Messerschmitt 109, which had popped out of a cloud and into the line of fire, falling away and coming apart...
...years ago, was depicted by an enormous white bird hovering over a ghost town; sabotage was symbolized by a factory through which a serpent wove its way. In another picture plumbing the future, a dragon Hitler encountered God, whose hooked nose and long white beard projected from a cloud. Passing from fore to hindsight, Mrs. Bush exhibited her brilliant idyllic scenes of the island of Guam, painted in 1942 from memories of a 1921 visit...