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...flying, and he wanted very little except to be fit and right for that. When he got leave he would got to London and his mother would ask Paddy's girl over from next-door-but-one, and if his kid brother got leave from the Bomber Command at the same time they would have a real party. He scarcely ever took a drink and did not smoke much...
...victory was the result of superb teamwork among Army, Navy and Marine Corps flyers, under the centralized command of Admiral Chester William Nimitz...
...Lush. No place can be taken as typical in England-it is all too new -but here is a firsthand picture of a Bomber Command unit. Quarters are in a hundreds -of -years -old. many-roomed, thick, crenelated-walled home and on the large, lush grounds of a big estate occupied since 1939 by the R.A.F. Privates are encamped in their own U.S. wooden-floored tents for the summer, officers in the mansion's outsize, fireplaced, tinted-plaster bedrooms complete with stone washbasins and large, white crockery commodes. Officers who tended to laugh at the British Army...
...station is under the direct command of energetic Bomber Chief General Ira Eaker. Reveille is sounded at 7 o'clock by Bugler Thomas Pomparelli from New York, who is waked up by a $1.98 alarm clock. Working day is from 8:30 to 5:30, seven days a week, with duties being the "same as at home" except for unmentionable preparations for the future. An hour and a half is taken up with a choice of baseball, tennis, swimming, volley ball, outdoor badminton and even croquet. Dinner is at 7, with few complaints, as Americans are on double British...
Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, facing court-martial (but probably not till the war's end) for alleged laxity in his command of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor, got a job with the Manhattan firm of Frederic R. Harris, Inc., naval designers, doing "special work which the Navy insists must be kept secret...