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Beside the bridge, Signalman 1st Class Ralph Moore, pea jacket buttoned tight, watch cap pulled down over his ears, fiddled with a blinker signal. Beating his spray-flecked gloves together for warmth, Moore reported a destroyer's signal to take up position in the escort...
...until the bugs, one by one, are eliminated. Pushed by General Arnold and the Lockheed officials, who never lost faith in the unorthodox, twin-fuselaged pursuit ship, the P-38 is now not only the high-altitude plane it was designed to be. Its long range enables it to escort bombers on round trips well over 1,000 miles. Its heavy, concentrated fire power (guns from the nose instead of the wings) is valuable for strafing airfields or supply columns. A "maneuvering flap" and engines which rotate in opposite directions make it more maneuverable than other equally heavy planes...
...northeast came the bombers. They circled the position leisurely, then bombed. The ridge ahead seemed to be a mass of flame and smoke and the ground where I was lying half a mile away jumped with each explosion. There were seven Junkers 88s with two Messerschmitts as escort. When they had gone the ridge seemed bare, but soon you could see men crawling on it and hear the snap of Bren guns replying to the German fire. . . . There was another bombing attack and two more strafes before dark...
...Rollins, where he scandalized folks by going swimming in white trunks, and at Black Mountain, where he used to take long walks in the woods with an escort of five dogs, roly-poly Professor Rice cut a slightly comic figure. But there was nothing comic about his mind. A preacher's son, nephew of U.S. Senator "Cotton Ed" Smith, John Rice grew up in a family of South Carolina individualists and became one himself, a rebel among rebels. He was a star pupil at Tennessee's famed Webb School, breezed through Tulane in three years, went to Oxford...
...registered for the draft from Cambridge in August and was shortly inducted into the Army at Devens, where he is now assigned to a military police escort guard...