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...Marshalls. The yellow Pacific moon saw what the Jap had never thought to see. Spaced along a 200-mile ocean front, from the Marshall to the Gilbert Islands, was an assault force of U.S. cruisers, destroyers and aircraft carriers, led by a blue-water sailor and naval flyer, Vice Admiral William Frederick Halsey Jr. (see cut, p. 23). They were ready to strike the Jap in his stolen strongholds-2,300 miles from Pearl Harbor, but nearest of all his bastions to Hawaii...
...Mild-mannered Presbyterian U.S.A. Chaplain Major John K. Borneman, who served in World War I as an ace flyer, chats about a chaplain's typical experiences. Borneman, from Niagara Falls, carries cigarets, Bibles, toothbrushes to the front and says the men ask for all sorts of things from him, including writing their letters home and confessing about the past. On Christmas Day, Borneman, as all other chaplains, carried as many as 1,200 greetings and cablegrams from the troops at the front to Manila, having to brave bombings and strafings en route...
Chennault's Mercenaries. To no one man belongs credit for organizing and recruiting the A.V.G. But A.V.G.'s spark plug from the start, its commander in Burma now, is a famous U.S. flyer: lean, dark Brigadier General Claire L. Chennault of Water Proof...
...Axis subs are operating in the Gulf of Mexico brought a complete blackout along 100 miles of Texas coast. The success of counter-measures was the Navy's own secret. Just one hint was allowed to slip through. The Navy released a terse report of one unnamed flyer: "Sighted sub, sank same...
...Patrick, 78, first Chief of the Army Air Service; in Washington. General Pershing put him in charge of A.E.F. Air Force development in World War I; starting with a handful of "flying coffins," he boosted the force to 45 battle-worthy squadrons in 18 months. He trained as a flyer and qualified as a pilot when...