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...joke when I say that TIME deserves worthy mention for the excellent job it is doing in salvaging the best from the terrestrial, the aquatic, the aerial, and the arboreal boiling pot of world news. TIME also deserves much credit for fostering a democratic exchange of ideas at a period when broad and tolerant ideas apparently seem taboo. But still greater praise should be given TIME for maintaining a sense of humor in reporting matters of utmost concern and gravity, for in times like these God himself must surely possess a sense of humor in order to endure some...
...When will that crazy guy ever turn off?' He kept coming. Then I knew why. That Messerschmitt was piloted by a dead one. At the last second I shoved the wheel forward and prayed. . .. He couldn't have missed by much, because he took off our aerial...
...Chennault. Over that road, flow all the supplies that get into China from the outside world, including fuel for Claire Chennault's tiny but vastly effective Fourteenth Air Force. The supplies are unloaded at the Assam terminus, transshipped to aircraft and whisked over the Hump, the Allies' aerial makeshift for the lost Burma road...
...Italy's Lati. More important, Pan Am charted the transoceanic routes which became invaluable in war. As Trippe recalled: "Why, sometimes nobody in the State Department, or even the Navy, had ever heard of some of the places we wanted to get to, places now part of our aerial lifeline...
...year-old Colonel Karl L. Polifka, had been "dicing" (mapping territory by aerial photography) for years, had flown 125 missions over enemy-held territory, both German and Jap. Eaker figured Pop was too valuable to lose, thought he had better ground him before Pop's luck...