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...troviejo, a native of Castile, Spain, and now a citizen of the U.S., is a crack eye surgeon from Manhattan's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; Argentina's President Roberto Marcelino Ortiz is almost blind. The doctor's embarrassment was caused by the crowd at the airfield, who put two & two together...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARGENTINA: Good Doctor, Bad Case | 5/25/1942 | See Source »

...secret airfield in Australia, airplane engines roared and a flight of pursuit ships sped out of a swirl of dust to take the air. One, a little too close, was caught in the slipstream of a ship ahead. It went out of control, screamed off the runway, ripped the motors off a parked plane, bounced off a jeep and crashed beyond in a group of khaki-clad men. The injured pilot was carried off the field crying "See what I did, see what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: HEROES: Death of George | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

Died. Brigadier General Harold H. George, 49; killed by a runaway plane on an airfield; in Australia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 11, 1942 | 5/11/1942 | See Source »

...MARCH OF TIME. One of the episodes purported to depict an incident in the front lines here in Bataan. There was a sound effect of firing and one of the characters said: "Here they come!" Just at that minute a flight of dive-bombers opened up on an airfield and our AAs opened up on them. The noise of that little brush completely drowned the sound effects on the radio. There was a gang around listening to the program and we were all very much amused at the coincidence. If you can get around to it, please drop a note...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 27, 1942 | 4/27/1942 | See Source »

...materials will go in at one end; from the other will emerge the 30-ton machines, coughing with life. The bombers will be born from half-mile assembly lines so fast that Ford will not try to store them. The deadly infants will be ranked on a great new airfield, stretching out from the assembly end of the plant, with enough white concrete runways to make a highway 22 miles long. From those runways the newborn bombers will make their test flights, then take off for service...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of Detroit | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

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