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...prodding, determined attack by a flight of Focke-Wulf 1903. In a brief burst of hell, one of the crew was killed, three were wounded. The Fortress was struck by ten cannon shells. But plane & crew saw it through to an American airdrome-"surely," said an Irish sergeant who heard the survivors' story, "by the grace...
...Shells Come In. Staff Sergeant William E. Williams of Jasper, Fla., the tail gunner, winged the first German. Another Fortress crowded close to the stricken Pappy and swung its guns on the Germans. But Pappy was the wounded duck. The 1905 pressed home for the kill. Said Captain Williams...
...splashed at us from behind and above and whipped past so close you could have snatched the swastika from their sides. Our ship was lurching under their wallops like a beaten boxer. One shell plowed into the top turret and went off in the face of the gunner, Technical Sergeant K. R. Aulenbach of Reading, Pa. Between attacks the crew dragged him out and laid him down for first aid but he was already gone; he died soon after we landed...
...attack went on. Two shells hit alongside each other in the left wing and exploded. Each ripped a jagged hole about four feet square. Two more landed, in the right wing this time. The radio operator -Technical Sergeant Eddie F. Espitallier of Clovis, Calif.-and the waist gunner knocked down another...
...Luce's cohorts are right, then the Axis has nothing to fear from America's younger generation. If it takes a uniform and a top sergeant and a U.S.O. dance to make a college student aware of the responsibilities he faces; if he can fool around without a serious thought in his head until his draft notice catches up with him--then Hitler's war aganst the unity of this country is already...