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...Chief target of Hull's sizzling attack was Columnist Drew Pearson, who printed the charge that Hull and other Department of State officials were blindly hostile to Russia. Crackled the Secretary: "Monstrous and diabolical falsehoods...
...faces stared up from the U-boat's deck. Men rushed to the conning tower and clambered in. The U-boat crash-dived. Down through the Atlantic's summer sky Pilot Thomas H. Isley's U.S. Army Liberator screamed in an eight-mile dive at a target of agitated water. From the plane's belly dropped a depth charge. The swirling sea gushed forth black blobs...
...tough mission. Jap fighters crowded the formation as it approached Dagua, hugging the treetops. Zeros picked on Cheli particularly. His plane caught fire just before the formation came over the target...
...this air war the R.A.F. deals the smashing blows to the body, the U.S. Eighth Air Force the precision blow to the heart. The Stirlings, Halifaxes and Lancasters that carry bombs in British night raids saturate an entire target area, hitting at German production and German morale indiscriminately. In a wide swath of smoking destruction the R.A.F may leave untouched factories on the outskirts of a city, or plants whose isolated location makes them difficult to hit. The precision bombers of the U.S. are sent over to get such factories by daylight. By this combination of forces not only...
...talk was mainly of deflection and approach angles. Deflection is what a duck hunter calls "lead": the aim ahead of a moving target. Guns are fixed, the plane itself must be aimed. The plane and its target are both moving fast (sometimes one-sixth the speed of the bullets fired.) The whole process must be automatic. Said Joe Foss: "When you're in a fight you've got to think of shooting and nothing else. If you have to think about flying . . . well, you get killed." About deflection: "Best way to get a Jap fighter is to shoot...