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Cold Nazi eyes noted the gesture. Hard Nazi justice sentenced the Fräulein to a year's hard labor, suspended her "civil rights" for three years. Moralized the Kölnische Zeitung: "Ruth Wegmann's attitude toward the enemy terror flyer is simply incredible. Such acts are unworthy of German women and contrary to our national feelings...
Even better is G for Genevieve, the breath-taking narrative of a pseudonymous Polish flyer whose family is still in Nazi-occupied Poland. Its true story: a hair-raising account of the author's attempt to get a plane to fight with. When he reported for duty (after two days of plane-strafed rail travel), he found the airport smashed. When he joined a squadron (after retreating with crowds of peasants along the choked, corpse-littered roads), his fighter was shot to pieces while it was taxiing across the field. "By that time the German air force was ranging...
...against the rise of neuropsychiatric disabilities. At a meeting in Philadelphia last fortnight of the American Psychiatric Association, Lieut. Colonel Roy Grinker and Major John Spiegel of the Army Air Forces Medical Corps described a technique known as "narcosynthesis." With such drugs as sodium pentothal and scopolamine, the afflicted flyer is reduced to a quasi-dream state in which he can talk freely but coherently about his innermost feelings...
Guilt Reactions. "One of the most amazing revelations," said Colonel Grinker, "has been the universality of guilt reactions." A flyer catches a bad cold and is unable to take off; another man goes in his place, and is lost in action. The first man is very likely to feel guilty . . . and under narcosynthesis may shout, "I should have got it instead...
...Ottawa Evening Citizen, Reader David Forbes told of a chance meeting in a cafe with a Royal Canadian Air Force flyer...