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...every airman knows, it is also sometimes bound to get cloudy-a fact that has saved and cost many combat flyers' lives. Because clouds are one of the important military concerns of World War II,* scientists have recently taken to more intensive cloud-gazing. Last week an unusually lucid explanation of the function of clouds in war was presented by an old cloud man, William J. Humphreys (retired) of the U.S. Weather Bureau, in a new book, Fog, Clouds and Aviation (Williams & Wilkins...
...planes had just dive-bombed the jutting rock of Troina where it stuck up like an island amid the circling mountain peaks. Black smoke curled upward in columns, merging into one big black cloud beneath which Troina disappeared like Camelot fading into the mists. We drove our jeep around a cliff to where an ambulance had halted beneath a ledge. Beyond that no car could advance, for the road was mined. By the ambulance lay a soldier who looked up at us with the tender, inquiring gaze the eyes of wounded men often seem to wear. A first...
...Oran, where the 1st landed and met some of the hardest fighting of the early campaign in North Africa, Allen demonstrated the quality which had sometimes been confused with casual impetuosity. The French held a strong position at St. Cloud, a suburb of Oran. Rather than lose men in frontal assault, Allen, on a spur-of-the-moment decision, sent two units around the town, into Oran. As his men told it later, it sounded obvious and easy, but they knew it was the act of a resourceful and flexible commander...
...return trip a new cloud of Focke-Wulfs attacked. Over the intercom the tail gunner said: "Two Forts are going down. Chutes opening from one. Can't see the other." Down below gun batteries made orange flashes, brown smoke spouted straight up, then black flak burst...
...Georgia Peach's guns were never silent, vibrating like riveters; empty brass cartridges piled up on the floor of the nose. Suddenly against a white cloud bank far ahead appeared dark specks. "I think the Spits are coming back," said intercom. "Be careful, though, boys." Spitfires streaked toward us, lipped into the Germans, then came back, darting protectively across our tail and either wing...