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Bull's-Eye. In the South Pacific, a U.S. flyer landed after disregarding orders by flying through his own side's flak to shoot down two Jap bombers. When he explained, "I figured if they couldn't hit the Japs, they couldn't hit me," he...
Allied commanders had set May 3, 1943 as the day for the climactic attack on Tunis and Bizerte. At the last moment there was a hitch: bad weather had grounded reconnaissance planes and there were no photographs of the enemy positions. The attack was postponed.
In the Air Forces, "Hangar Queen" is not a proud title. It refers to any grounded plane which is being systematically "cannibalized" (stripped of its parts) so that other planes may fly. Last week airmen told of the career of one of the biggest hangar queens yet-No. 144, a...
Tensely the task ships waited for word. One hour after the takeoff it came: "Enemy taken by surprise." Kwajalein's roomy lagoon (80 miles long, 20 miles at the widest) was full of shipping: sampans, inter-island craft, seagoing merchantmen, tankers, warships. Said a U.S. pilot: "It was a...
The bishops' fears were clearly grounded on their old suspicions of Russia. Said the bishops: