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...Captain William Gladstone Agnew, in command of the British squadron, met more than he had bargained for. The original convoy was just being joined by two more merchantmen, and two heavy Italian cruisers, twice the size of his own, were on hand. He did not hesitate...
Britain's Air Ministry had waited a long time for favorable weather to strike deep into Germany and Occupied Europe. One night the weather seemed just right: not too good to expose the flights to antiaircraft on the coast, not too bad to prevent accurate bombing. The Bomber Command dispatched more than 500 bombers to blast towns from Norway to southern Italy. New heavy Halifaxes, Stirlings, Wellingtons and Whitleys, loaded with Britain's powerful new bombs, sought out Berlin for special treatment...
Flight Operations. Consolidated's B-24s are now picked up at the factory by pilots of the Army's Ferrying Command for delivery to Air Forces commands or to the British. But the boats are delivered by Consolidated's own Flight Operations. Flying boss of F.O. is a huge-boned, broad-faced airman named Russ Rogers, who in 1939 was flying a PBY (the Cuba) for Standard Oil Heir Richard Archbold in New Guinea when Rube Fleet decided to set up his own delivery service. Frank Learman, traffic manager...
Gouaches, requiring neither the heavy weight slugging of oil paintings nor the flyweight speed of watercolor, are the middleweights of painting, command a smaller price (usually from $50 to $150) but put on a fine show for the money. Unlike oil paint, gouache* (a combination of opaque colors ground in water and a preparation of gum arabic) is mixed with water in painting, is fast-drying, cheap and simple to use. Gouache painters need neither easels, oil, turpentine nor expensive canvas, can paint conveniently on anything from paper to wallboard. Unlike watercolor, where the texture of the paper shows through...
Coach McDonald has a perfectly fit army under his command, an aggregation which, he claims, is definitely on the upswing. Like the football teams of Dick Harlow, the booting elevens of Jim McDonald may be expected to make a better showing in November than in the earlier stages of the campaign. For like the Harlow system, McDonald's strategy emphasizes the perfected command of individual talents and closely-knit teamwork. It takes time to get those things down...