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...safe back at the Twentieth Bomber Command's China base after thirty-six hours of wandering just a few miles behind the Honan battlefront where the B-29 I was in crash-landed flying back from Japan bombing. I spent most of the time with crew members working out a scheme to avoid being captured by Japs, while Jap fighters and bombers throughout the morning mercilessly strafed and bombed the ship into a total wreck. I fortunately escaped any injury. I hope my story on bombing will reach you in time for publication. (It did. See WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...bare bones of the official announcements, U.S. newsmen added their accounts. Eight correspondents and three photographers flew on the raid, among them TIME'S Harry Zinder, whose B-29 crash-landed in a China battle zone on the return trip (see facing page...
...darkness has come on us. These planes you hear overhead are the motors of the Nazis coming and going in the cloudy sky. . . . [Deep boom']. . . . That was a bomb hit. Another one! Fire bursts and the flak and streamers going out in a diagonal slant (loud crash of ack-ack) right over our head. . . . Flares are coming down now. You can hear the machine gunning. . . . Here's heavy ack-ack now [loud firing and muffled shouts of crew']. . . . Here we go again! Another plane has come over (roar of motors). . . . The cruiser right alongside us is pouring it up (sound...
...Chief Crash Davis' B team was scheduled to play an invading squad from Worcester Polytechnic Institute at Soldiers Field Saturday, but stormy weather wiped the game off the schedule...
This meant that despite a phenomenal 90% passenger load, record air express cargoes, and higher gross incomes, the industry was barely hedgehopping over the financial woods. TWA crash-landed in the red, losing $92,420 ($357,352 profit last year). Pennsylvania-Central and Western Air Lines lost $77,682 and $17,565 respectively. American, its net down 47%, still cleared the trees by $597,796. Well-managed United fared best, settling down to a $1,110,083 profit-almost as good...