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...night they battled the fire and by morning brought it under control. A jury steering gear was rigged and the main engines urged to nine-knot speed. For 700 miles 26-year-old Second Officer Arthur Hawkins guided her eastward, by the moon and stars and a page torn from an old school atlas. Greaser Joe Boyle, his ribs broken, was propped on a stool in the engine room to check the gauges. But after two days he collapsed, died overnight in his bunk...
...German artillery firing across the Channel, of U-boats at sea, pictures of England taken from German air raiders (with bombs visible as they leave the plane), of a ship in a British convoy photographed from a Stuka diving straight down on it, of freight yards in occupied France torn up by British bombs, of French prisoners slaving at construction projects for the Germans, of French children getting rations from the conquerors, of Hitler gaily touring Paris, visiting the Madeleine, looking at the Eiffel Tower...
...Corpus Christi. The officers slept in the plane, were found next morning by two cowboys who led them out of the desert brush to the ranch house. Then Murray Hanson learned what happened to the men who had jumped at his order. One was killed; his parachute had been torn from his body. One was unhurt. Three were injured and in hospitals at Big Spring and Lamesa, Tex., 450 miles away as a PBY flies...
...tumble out a coherent story to the port authorities at Kavieng, New Guinea. They had crossed the 85 miles from Emirau Island, they said, to get help for some 500 prisoners of war, marooned there by German sea raiders. Help was needed quickly. Some of the castaways were badly torn by shrapnel and steel splinters. Seventy women and children were nearly exhausted. All of them were dirt-encrusted, hollow-eyed, half-starved...
...frustrated, unsatisfied hoodlum in America will start buying colored shirts and parading with his local fascist party? When it will be impossible to critize fascism, lest it disturb relations with our good friends and customers beyond the seas. Hitler won't have to invade America until it is so torn be inner conflict that the German army could cross the ocean in canoes. It is time to end these theories of invasion, so easily refuted by calculations of gross tonnage. When Hitler gets ready to invade the United States will have a government unwilling and unable to resist...