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...held Rabaul. "We dropped our bombs on the runway and machine-gunned two bombers on the ground," said 2nd Lieut. Eugene D. Wallace of Los Angeles, the plane's copilot. "Antiaircraft fire was awfully heavy and ... we were hit. . . . The pilot said we would have to make a crash landing...
...crew were killed in the crash. The other six, wounded, made their way to New Britain's coast. Their chief worry was capture. Sometimes they were so close to Jap troops, said 2nd Lieut. Marvin Hughes of Baird, Tex., "we could have whistled at them." Once they hid on one side of a narrow stream and watched Japs eating breakfast on the other side. Two of the six were finally captured. Another died...
...hour before the plane was due in Chicago, the pilot found the landing gear stuck, informed his shipload of brass hats of the choice before them: parachute or a crash landing. While the passengers worried away an hour preparing for the next-to-worst, the mechanic got the gear unstuck. Among the relieved passengers: WPBoss Donald Marr Nelson...
...Sleep and food are important; don't forget them in your eagerness to get out. . . . Good water and food are available in the jungle if you know where to look for them." In the first place, if a pilot possibly can, he is advised to make a controlled crash landing instead of bailing out, not primarily to save the plane but to help save his skin. The plane will help guide searching parties, provide shelter, fuel for warmth and smoke signals, materials to make sun helmets and knives. Other handy equipment in planes: a parachute for a tent...
Into the New Deal. When the crash came, Morgan joined with other bankers to stem the tide. A $240,000,000 pool was formed to bolster the market-a gesture which failed. "There is no man nor group of men," said the top-ranking Morgan partner, realistic Thomas W. Lament, "who can buy all the stocks that the American public can sell." The market crashed on down. In 1933 came the New Deal, and with it the campaign against "princes of privilege" and "economic royalists...