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Somewhere west of Cairo, about two weeks ago, a few U.S. airmen and bombers appeared at an R.A.F. airdrome. Under Colonel Harry A. Halverson of Boone, Iowa they moved into stone quarters in the desert, shared an R.A.F. mess, labored mightily in the heat to prepare for their forays. First their long-range, four-engined B-24s (Liberators) struck across the Mediterranean and Turkey at Rumania's oilfields, possibly at other targets in the Black Sea (TIME, June 22). Last week eight U.S. B-24s (including one flown by an R.A.F. crew) attacked an Italian Fleet which...
...Alexandria, the British tried to get supplies into battered Malta and to the retreating Eighth Army at Tobruk (see p. 20). Italo-German warships, planes, submarines and torpedo boats grabbed their chance, tried to knock out the bulk of Britain's remaining Mediterranean Fleet. Thanks partly to Colonel Halverson's roving bombers, the Axis failed in its main objective. But the British lost heavily, were able to claim only a limited success in getting the convoy through...
HARVARD M.I.T. Adelman, g. g., Borger Rogers, c.p. c.p., Gardiner Whittemore, p. p., Wilson Holsapple, 1d. 1d., Geil Duffey, 2d. 2d., Mathias Rabinovitz, e. e., Forster Murphy, 2a. 2a., Halverson Edmands, 1a. 1a., Asch Lessig, oh. oh., Lufkin England...
...took on fuel. This required uncanny air jockeying. Only, 15 feet directly above the Question Mark flew a fuelling plane piloted by Capt. R. G. Hoyt or Lieut. Odas Moon. From this plane dangled a thin rubber hose. While the planes zoomed at 75 miles an hour Lieut. Harry Halverson aboard the Question Mark reached out, grabbed the hose, thrust it into the tanks. Once there was bungling. Gasoline was spilt. Major Carl Spatz, the commander, was burned. Lieut. Elwood Quesada was overcome by fumes. But later a swinging rope conveyed zinc oxide, balm for the Major. Lieut. Quesada, recovered...
...denied one of the clemency pleas, granted the other pleader a reprieve. Accordingly, one Wilmot LeRoy Wagner was electrocuted at Sing Sing for killing two State Troopers who tried to arrest him in Caneadea, N. Y., last summer; and one Ludwig Halverson Lee, convicted of killing and dismembering two women, was told he might live until July...