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...squadron had been encamped for several days in the cold, inhospitable desert, irritable and impatient as only bomber pilots can be when bad weather holds them from their target. Then the message came from headquarters: "Bomb the quays and shipping at Sousse...
Singing Guns. I settled down for the long, monotonous run to the target. Ten hours of boredom; five minutes of excitement-that's the life of bomber crews...
...That Goddam Target." It was dusk. The sea barely rippled, faded from sight and we were alone in the battleship greyness. It was censorable degrees below zero and we had reached censorable heights...
...through that un friendly bleakness, listening to the pilot asking the navigator where we were, circling, looking for something and seeing nothing, the vaporous exhaust of a night fighter flashing by and we losing altitude, losing altitude, everything black everywhere-it seemed as if we never would find the target...
...Aberdeen, at the Chemical Warfare Service's Edgewood Arsenal, the correspondents saw some of the Army's devious ways of killing by nonexplosive methods. >Old-type flame throwers sprayed liquid fuel (from canisters strapped to the gunner's back) in a diffused spurt which left the target burning briefly. The Army's new flame thrower squirts a thin stream of an improved fuel, with greater accuracy, over a greater distance, leaves its target burning longer...