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...handful of top-flight naval aviators in a Navy building projection room in Washington last week intently watched the latest Walt Disney film. It was no Donald Duck comedy they were watching, but the newest training film for Navy fighter pilots. It was also another achievement for a veteran airman whom Navy flyers recognize as their best fighter tactician...
...English sword maker agreed to make the mail. In World War I he had developed a suit of light strips of flexible steel, held together and covered by canvas. Before designing the airman's armor, movements of a bomber crew at 20,000 feet were studied. The suit was designed for complete freedom of action, can be shed fast for a quick bailout...
Such results gave bomber crews grounds for hope that body armor might soon be standard. They also made Flight Surgeon Grow an airman's hero. Said he: ". . . If was better to do something about it now instead of reading papers about it to medical societies after...
...Japanese execution of the American flyers [TIME, May 3] has recalled to my mind a fact that I've been pondering, on and off, ever since the war started-the fact that one may, with propriety, use any means of killing an enemy airman as long as he is still in his plane, but if he is forced to land, as soon as he touches the ground it's not cricket to shoot him even though he may just have bombed to eternity a few hundred men, women and children...
...that knockout is delivered from the air this year, its chief author will be Air Chief Marshal Harris. Except perhaps in the last rounds, the chief instrument will be his Bomber Command. His friend and poker foe, General Eaker, is just as much of an airman, and he had a great deal to do with presenting and championing the airmen's proposition. But, in comparison with the R.A.F., the Eighth Air Force and its Bomber Command are still small and young. American bombers first attacked Occupied France last August, first flew into Germany last Jan. 27. The American force...