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...camouflaged at Brest, flew U.S.-built Flying Fortresses manned by the R.A.F. They had arrived through the substratosphere, unheard and unseen in the broad daylight; they had done so because behind each of the Fortresses' four engines were turbo-superchargers, feeding them fat air to breathe in the thin heights. Though the coast below was warm and summery, the planes were frosted over with rime. They cruised serenely above the effective range of ground fire and were on the way home long before German pursuit planes could struggle up to have a go at them...
...Like a thin, cold rain, letters poured down on every Government office that deals with defense, from the Department of Agriculture to the White House itself. The letters came from farmers, businessmen, little people of all kinds-victims of the biggest production boom in U.S. history. Some of their complaints were trivial, some were serious. But the thing they complained of was always the same: shortages...
...Finally, the R.A.F. went for the Luftwaffe. The air force which Adolf Hitler left in the west was spread thin. Day raids by between 100 and 300 British fighters and bombers at first had easy pickings. In the first month of the Battle of Germany, Hurricanes and Spitfires flew 2,000,000 plane-miles in offensive sweeps and patrols, and destroyed 301 old Messerschmitt 109s, while losing only 118 of their own fighter planes (the British lost 112 bombers in the same period...
...tour, complete with travel notes, of Paris, Nürnberg, Innsbruck and the Austrian Tyrol, all on the thin edge...
There Francis won the dislike and doctrinal distrust of "tall, dark, thin, intense yet sardonic" Father Tarrant. When Francis ventured: "Surely, sir, creed is such an accident of birth God can't set an exclusive value on it," Father Tarrant answered icily: "What an admirable heretic you would have made, my good Chisholm...