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...Crimson crewmen came closest to bringing home rival shirts in the preliminary event between M.I.T. and Harvard third boats. Finishing 14 seconds behind the Engineers' shell, Bill Allen's eight, coxed by Harold May, lost its race by two lengths. In the Jayvee contest Charlie Loring's Freshman squad trailed by four lengths, and in the Varsity event, John Chandler's boat finished three distances behind...
...hard, unhappy-looking men kept to themselves. Along the boardwalk, in the Atlantic City bars, they avoided civilians, even shunned other soldiers who had not been overseas. The hard young men were veteran Army Air Forces pilots and crewmen. They had had 21-day furloughs at home. Now they were at the Atlantic City redistribution center, being prepared for reassignment...
There were some bad landings and planes were wrecked on the packed decks; many pilots chose the wrong carriers. But from 95 planes lost to enemy action and "extreme range," all but 22 pilots and 27 crewmen were saved...
When a military plane is six miles up, the crewmen are usually hampered by cumbersome clothing, by oxygen masks which fasten to stationary valves. Not so in the B29. It has a cabin which provides air near sea-level pressure at the highest ceiling...
Superficially she resembles an open shoe box, although she is highly complicated. Quarters for five officers and 48 men, plus space for 50 passengers (e.g., tank crewmen), besides stowage space and lockers are all in narrow hives in her high sides. In between is her big open well, where she will carry tanks and trucks. For protection she mounts 20-mm. antiaircraft guns...