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...Cliff's mother will not try to keep him down on the Elmwood farm, now that he has seen Oran. Until he is old enough to start all over again in the Army, ex-Airman Wherley has picked his job: inspector of Marauders in Glenn Martin's Omaha plant...
...British airman last week coasted high over the Messina Strait between Sicily and the Italian mainland on a mission of photoreconnaissance. The air was clear and still, visibility unlimited. Looking out, the pilot could see the length & breadth of Sicily and, on the other side, the full expanse of the Italian toe. Between the two, the narrow straits looked "so small you could jump across them-a blue ditch...
...great semicircle to the north and south," the airman told a New York Herald Tribune correspondent, "the sea was flat and empty, but below me things were happening. There were barges and landing craft fully loaded. Our photographs proved they were leaving Sicily and empty ones were hurrying back...
Captain Thomas G. Lanphier Jr., Army air hero (TIME, May 31), was shop-talking, with the professional airman's elaborate understatement, about one of the strangest engagements of this or any war-a battle in which U.S. fighter planes sank a Japanese destroyer by gunfire...
...airman, back again from Sicily with his medium bomber, relaxed at a dusty North African airdrome and sought words for the things he had seen...