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...side. Then a bullet tore through the nose. Such a blast of air came in that both pilot and co-pilot began to freeze. One was barehanded, the other had only light dress gloves, and we were above 20,000 feet. Within a couple of minutes the ball-turret gunner had shot down an Me-110 trying to get us, and the radio operator had been wounded. We were getting pretty banged up. Then a fighter made a quick pass at us and sent a shell crashing into the cockpit. Our copilot, Steve Bellovay, was hit clean through the breast...
There are some fine flying scenes in Bombardier, and its generally muscular tone compares favorably with that of such weak, routine productions as Aerial Gunner. But Bombardier must compete with no less beautiful flying sequences in at least a half-dozen other U.S. films, and with the British minor masterpiece Target for Tonight (TIME, Nov. 3, 1941), which makes most flying films before and since seem superfluous. Bombardier has, further, to clear Anne Shirley every time it leaves the ground, and from time to time it crashes into insurmountable dialogue. Sample lulu: "Go ahead, Buck-make tomorrow's headlines...
Their remaining stay on Attu now appears to be short. Now the fighting has narrowed to a battle of soldier against soldier. U.S. troops are going in with rifle and bayonet and prying out each sniper, then blasting out each machine gunner with grenades. Such fighting takes canny soldiering. It takes guts...
...streak of silvery light. Somewhere in darkness was an enemy submarine. Aboard the Spencer was TIME Correspondent William Walton, whose account of what followed was released by the Navy this week: The seconds dragging by seemed an age. "Jesus, why don't we do something?" muttered a gunner's mate. Nothing but dark waves could be seen ahead. The tension grew. A man with headphones relayed an order to the starboard 3-in. gun: "Load a star shell...
...bitch," said the gunner's mate. "We won't get to fire...