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...cruelty began on the very day of surrender. It flowered in a carnival of sadism on the 85-mile march from Bataan to San Fernando, a trek since known to all the prisoners as the "March of Death." Colonel Dyess, subsequently killed in a U.S. plane crash, described...
...Japan, the little people had no hope for peace, did not suspect that in time the United Nations would crash through to their heartland. They knew only that this was the Kessen year, the year of battle decision...
...went in at 50 feet-into terrible antiaircraft fire," he remembers. "Our planes would crash and we could see our buddies burning in their planes. Our group commander's plane was hit and he gunned it up so his men could get out. I saw three chutes leave, but I don't think two of the men landed alive. Then the commander dove his plane right into the biggest building in town. No man who went to Ploesti will ever forget...
Died. Lance Wade, 26, ace Wing Commander of the R.A.F.; in a behind-the-line crash; in Italy. The modest Texan had a score of 25 confirmed kills, one less than the U.S. record for World...
...marks a milestone in air transport labor relations. Ever since 1934, when Behncke was an airmail pilot on the Chicago-Omaha run and was forced by bad weather to pancake his plane into a treetop, he has doggedly campaigned for greater safety in flying. Unhurt in the crash, he toppled ignobly to the ground while getting out of his wrecked ship, broke his leg, quit flying. Since its beginning in 1931 he has headed the A.L.P.A. (4,500 members), which he helped found. Reasonable in his dealings with management, Behncke has been unrelentingly stubborn about safety measures...