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...Argentines. It embarrassed President Castillo as Teddy Roosevelt once embarrassed neutral Woodrow Wilson by proposing to fight for Belgium. This week General Justo flew to Rio in the private plane of Brazil's President Getulio Vargas as guest of honor for the Brazilian national holiday. At Santos Dumont Airfield he got a roaring welcome from 30,000 Brazilians. All this raised General Justo's chances of succeeding President Castillo in 1943. President Castillo was particularly galled because last July he himself had said: "War-minded people are fully free to go to actual war fronts, where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: The General Takes Off | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...flying directly into the rising sun. Smudges of smoke from gunboats and ships on the Pearl River mix with a low-lying mist. Beyond, I know, is the Canton airfield...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: FLIGHT TO THE RISING SUN | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

There is the rumble of the bomb bays opening. Bursts of smoke pop out of the ground as our bombs strike the warehouse docks. On the brown airfield, Japanese planes are lined up in neat rows. Red Sorenson, behind us, wheels in with his flight and his bombs crash among a group...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: FLIGHT TO THE RISING SUN | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

...Dutch airfield 150 Nazis in full flying kit were drawn up as though for pay-day parade, unmindful that July 4 was a special day in the non-Nazi world, a day when something extraordinary might happen. It did. The Nazis were caught flat-footed on their airfield by a tight-flying contingent of twelve Douglas twin-motored bombers, half of them manned by Americans, half by Britons, which sent the Germans scuttling for cover amid bomb bursts and the firecracker chatter of machine guns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: To Fetch a Grunt | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

...Eagle Squadron, most of them would be puzzled by the way Hero Robert Stack mopes around (his buddy has been shot down) because the British take death so dispassionately. When he eventually recovers, wins the girl (Diana Barrymore) and niches a new-type fighter plane from a German airfield, time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 13, 1942 | 7/13/1942 | See Source »

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