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...fledgling from the U.S. Army air base at Dalhart, Tex. last week bungled his navigation by 45 miles: he mistook the lights of Boise City, Okla. (pop: 1,144) for his practice target. Aiming straight at the Baptist church and Forrest Bourk's garage, he loosed six practice bombs (each bomb: 4 lb. of powder, 96 lb. of sand and shell). The noise of the explosions roared through the sleeping town...
...four daylight raids on Germany and three on Occupied France, the Eighth Air Force dropped "between 2,000 and 3,000 tons." (Correspondents thought it was nearer 3,000 tons.) Heaviest U.S. load on a single target: 500 tons, concentrated on a synthetic rubber plant...
Tall, blond Lieut. Commander Harold Edward Stassen, peacetime Governor of Minnesota, picked up a standard .22 target pistol at the Fort Schuyler, N.Y. Naval Training School, made 99 points out of 100. Startled onlookers learned later that he once captained the University of Minnesota's rifle team...
...Navy Munitions Board, just about the time Brewster was making trouble for Navy trouble shooters. When Riebel came in, the Brewster plane production per month could be counted on his two hamlike hands. The one thing lower than production was the workers' morale. Riebel made morale his first target...
...five days she lay under water, sur facing cautiously, at night. On the after noon of June 10 the Clyde's commander sighted a target that made the strain worth enduring: a German pocket battle ship and a cruiser. She lost them. Early the next morning she sighted another huge enemy ship - beyond her reach. For nine days more the Clyde searched and found empty sea. She had now been at sea for three weeks. The 50 men of her crew were grim, bitter, tense. They could not smoke, waited in fixed dullness when the Clyde was submerged, chewed...