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...bombing target the gunner-operator picked up a message in the proper code of the day. Its instruction: change course and attack a different objective. Said Air Force...
Chickering must have made quite a target these past few weeks, for he is about the biggest correspondent between Attu and Port Moresby (210 pounds, six feet four) and he has been in the thick of the fighting ever since he went back to the Pacific front for us early in September...
...first day of football practice at Columbia in 1938, photographers hauled out an old archery target. To get stunt pictures, they placed Quarterback Sid Luckman 25 yd. away and told him to toss passes. Six times in a row he hit the dead center of the four-inch bull's-eye. In seven years of college and pro football he proved that he was just as accurate under gridiron fire...
...last week, the daylight bombers had depended mainly on their own fire power for defense. But the U.S. Eighth Air Force worked out new tactics. Last week it tried them and found them good. They involved a combination of two principles: fighter escort all the way to the target, coordination with a whole pattern of associated attacks...
...Corporal William McLoughlan: "In two or three minutes-I give you my word for this-the factory had been flattened. Not a building except one shed was standing when the Americans went away. Everybody was thunderstruck by the whole thing. Every one of the bombs fell exactly inside the target area. It was perfection bombing." That was his account of a U.S. Eighth Air Force raid on an unspecified German airplane factory...