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Good shot: cut into the picture's fighting climax, a scene of actual air combat. As an enemy plane swings into the camera's view, audiences may trace for themselves the effect of well-aimed English gunfire before the wounded Nazi swerves out of sight...
...thing had gone wrong right at the start; the undercarriage release gear jammed. Combat gliders use wheels only for the takeoff, then drop them and land on heavy skids. Failure of our release gear meant that we would have to land on wheels-and no brakes. At the time it seemed unimportant...
...legend on Attu by now that the Chaplains have been as splendid under fire as any combat soldiers. Burying the dead is only a small part of the Chaplain's work, but nothing concerns them more than that each dead soldier shall have religious services before his cross is raised...
Lieut. Fox-Male took part in the Battle of Britain in 1940 after having only 15 solo hours as a Spitfire pilot. Asked about his first impressions in his initial air combat, he said with an engaging grin: "Well, as it happens; I was shot down. It all happened very fast, and I didn't have time to know whether I was very excited...
Then he nosed around a rear R.A.F. base, finally wangled a free bomber ride to Malta, then to Gibraltar. On the way back to Egypt, he saw the bombing of Navarino Bay. The British P.R.O.s were furious, forbade him to ride in combat planes...