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...Libyan desert and some of the most utterly realistic battle scenes ever filmed hold up an otherwise flimsily constructed picture. Henry Fonda goes through the process of becoming a leader of men under the tutelage of Thomas Mitchell, who is the sergeant in charge of a lost sunrise-patrol. Every so often, there is a flash-back to Maureen O'Hara, because Hollywood has just got to work romance in somehow. Since Maureen isn't on the scene of action it moves along fairly well, but not on a par with terrific action scenes, which alone make it good entertainment...
Deemed a worthy successor to the far-famed "Lowell Mole Patrol" and the much-touted "Take the Wrinkles Out of Pruneface's Face Association," the "Deathless Deer" club has been initiated by the B-School in recognition of the Boston Herald's new comic strip, product of the fiendish imagination of two girls, Alicia Patterson nd Neisa McMein...
...Patwing Four began on June 2. That day the weather was so thick that an officer standing on one landing strip watching for a plane to let down was unable to see it as it landed on another strip in the same field. But other PBYs were out on patrol, fanning out over hundreds of miles. They found nothing...
Until someone turns up with a better weather yarn, airmen of the Aleutians forces will stick to Hannibal, the hitchhiking sea gull. Hannibal, the story goes, turned up on the wing of a Navy Catalina patrol boat one day when it was feeling its way, barely above the sea, in a pea-soup fog. The pilot decided that if the weather was too thick for Hannibal it was too thick for a PBY, too. He landed. As the plane rippled to a stop, Hannibal took off, soared to a full-stall landing, and swam off into...
More details of the Aleutians operations, where weather is a more dangerous enemy than the Jap, were given this week by the Navy. Heroes of its story were the airmen of Captain Leslie Edward Genres' Patrol Wing Four and their comrades of the Army Air Forces, who indeed flew when the sea gulls were swimming...