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...last week put forth their idea of what the well-dressed 1944 candidate will wear. Their choice was a bemedaled uniform occupied by a wounded young Air Force Major, Carl Eugen ("Kayo") Wuertele, 30. Major Wuertele (pronounced Wurtell) was at Pearl Harbor when the Japs came over. In 205 combat missions since, he collected five wounds and seven decorations, including the Distinguished Flying Cross. His Flying Fortress, Hel-en-Wings (for his wife, Helen) fought over Midway and Bougainville. In the Solomons, he shot down four Jap planes, had his own left foot nearly shot...
...rocket principle. Its projectile, like a mortar shell, is propelled by the explosion of a cartridge in the base. Rear half of the tube houses a powerful steel spring which takes up the recoil, re-cocks itself and operates the firing pin for the next shot. In combat the 33-lb. Piat is handled by a two-man team, one to aim and fire, the other to haul ammunition and reload...
Colonel Grinker divides military neuroses into four types: 1) those occurring before exposure to military life can have any effect; 2) those caused by the restrictions of military life; 3 ) those caused by foreign service with its homesickness and poor living conditions; 4) true war neuroses caused by actual combat. Men suffering from the first three types, says the Colonel, were not normal in the first place and have a poor chance of being completely cured. But men with true war neuroses are not "weak and useless characters, and deserve active help...
...Grumman Aircraft proudly announced that it has the "largest output in the world of combat planes" in any single plant...
...basis of WPB figures, Consolidated was entitled to its claim. It had turned out 126,000,000 pounds of aircraft, compared to 115,000,000 for Douglas. But Douglas also had an argument. Thousands of planes produced by Consolidated were easy-to-build trainers, instead of hard-to-build combat ships. Furthermore, Consolidated had merged with Vultee and Stinson in '43, lumped all production...