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...over Britain, had escaped in April from a Canadian prison camp. He made his way to Detroit, there met a naturalized German named Max Stephan, who ran a small tavern and still loved his Vaterland. Short, pudgy Max Stephan gave the fugitive money, food & drink. He helped the Nazi flyer on toward Mexico. But Peter Krug was caught in San Antonio. Last week he turned on Kamerad Stephan...
...strongest in the air. One day they knocked off 16 Stukas, eleven Messerschmitts and a lone Italian Macchi. Another day they wrecked 50 Axis supply trucks. Every night, on Tobruk, Bengasi, even Tripoli, British and U.S. bombers staged the most massive raids the desert battleground has ever known. One flyer compared the destruction in Bengasi to that in Cologne...
...meaning of Dunkirk hits home when Mr. Miniver pilots his speedboat slowly down the Thames estuary with the flotilla of amateur navigators who set out to rescue their beaten Expeditionary Force. The Nazi mentality becomes viciously and pathetically real when Mrs. Miniver disarms a wounded German flyer in her kitchen, then slaps his face for talking Aryan nonsense. World War II is reduced to the compass of an Anderson shelter when the Minivers and their well-scrubbed youngsters ride out an air raid in their own backyard. It is anybody's backyard, anywhere...
...noon, bombers and torpedo-planes from U.S. carriers went into battle. Said a naval flyer: "Ten minutes later the three carriers were blazing from stem to stern." At about the same time, the Army bombers also resumed the attack, after refueling on Midway's undamaged airfield...
Bobby Jones, now 40, applied for a commission in the Air Force, learned from the War Department that he had a good chance of getting it, though not as a flyer...