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Parachuting down from a dogfight and head-on crash in the Guadalcanal sector, Lieut. Henry E. Matson opened his eyes and said: "Safe at last." Then...
...Navy. This week, as the Casablanca crisscrossed Puget Sound with happy Henry Kaiser aboard, the engine ran superbly. Smoothly, the $7,000,000 Casablanca did better than its designed speed, controlled nicely at slow speeds, came through perfectly on a crash stop...
...their greetings, were promptly jumped by 20 Nazi Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulfs. Down to the bombers' aid dived an escort of P-40 Warhawks. First Lieut. Charles Hall turned neatly inside two Focke-Wulfs, slapped a burst of tracers into the second plane, followed it down, saw it crash in a towering cloud of dust. Back at his base, Lieut. Hall received special congratulations from General Dwight D. Eisenhower. His Focke-Wulf was the first enemy plane to be shot down by the Negro fighter squadron commanded by Lieut. Colonel Benjamin O. Davis...
...this, the Japanese stopped shooting. Lieut. Matson hit the water, inflated his rubber raft, climbed aboard it, covered himself with his parachute, went to sleep. An hour later, a crash boat rescued...
Died. Major Victor Alexander Cazalet, 46, Unionist M.P. from Chippenham since 1924, onetime British squash racquets champion, political liaison officer to Premier of the Polish Government in exile, General Wladyslaw Sikorski; in their bomber's crash at Gibraltar...