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Ralph Cheli, 23, fair-haired, blue-eyed, had 40 missions and 135 combat hours behind him in New Guinea; he had the D.F.C. and the Air Medal. He also had a young son, called "Butch" by fellow flyers looking over the baby pictures. Because of his executive duties he need not have flown missions; in fact, he rarely went out on routine jobs. "But when the mission was going to be tough," said the pilots, "we could be sure Cheli would be out there with us." On Aug. 18 Cheli went out with them to bomb and strafe the Dagua...
...guide it to its target, or warn and plot the course of interceptor aircraft. It will carry bombs of an entirely different design. It may mount heavy-caliber cannon of an entirely new principle of operation. Fighter planes will have advanced almost beyond recognition in form and in the combat equipment they carry." What made these predictions news this week was their author: not Major de Seversky, writing for the aviation press, but General H. H. ("Hap") Arnold, commanding general of the Army Air Forces, in a special article for Army Ordnance, one of the most sober-sided of military...
...radio detecting and sighting devices and heavy guns remotely operated from a central fire-control position. Whether he expects these superplanes in time for this war, Hap Arnold did not say. But he stated flatly that "planes with surprising developments in heavy aircraft cannon will soon appear on the combat fronts...
Aviation Cadet Erwin D. Wissenback is 23 years old, shy and serious. He looks like hundreds of other cadets learning the combat flyer's trade at Miami Beach. But Cadet Wissenback is different. He has already had an unusual military career. He holds the Air Medal and the Purple Heart, and when Germany is knocked out (but not before) he will be able to tell one of the strangest stories of World...
...Gallowhur. In a healthy, antiseptic postwar world he sees mankind free of sunburn (Skol), free of bug bites (Skat) and "Puratized" of fabric-borne germs. He imagines everything from toothbrushes to children's departments in stores automatically made antiseptic; walls in breweries and bakeries painted with pigments that combat yeast- mold; swimming pools and yachts protected from algae (a small boat, painted with patches of plain and Puratized paint, "grew a beard" in the plain sections, was "cleanshaven" where Puratized...