Word: arctics
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bomber, droning through the Arctic sky one day last week, spotted a Japanese freighter where no Jap freighter ought to be. Said the Navy's laconic communiqué: "The ship was left burning and was later seen to sink." The Navy offered no conjecture as to what the ship was doing 110 miles north and east of Kiska, in the Bering...
...ESSENTIAL A DUTY AS THERE IS IN THE WHOLE WAR PROGRAM. THESE "PROFITEERS" COULD MAKE MORE MONEY IN DETROIT OR GARY OR CLEVELAND FROM THE BACKGROUND OF THEIR OWN HOMES WITH THE COMFORT AND PLEASURES OF PRIVATE LIFE THAN THEY WILL MAKE ON THE LONG, COLD VOYAGES TO THE ARCTIC OR RUNNING THE GANTLET OF "BOMB ALLEY." THE "ROUGH AND RAMBUNCTIOUS . . . 13-WEEK TRAINEES" SEEM TO ME, AND I HAVE HAD OVER 40 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN HANDLING AND JUDGING GROUPS OF MEN, TO BE EXCEPTIONALLY HIGH-GRADE REPRESENTATIVES OF YOUNG AMERICA. THEIR CIVILIAN STATUS DOES NOT PRECLUDE DISCIPLINE. THEY...
...heroism and extraordinary achievement" on operational flights "over Arctic, subArctic and tropical regions . . . over water and uninhabited areas . . . deep into hostile and heavily defended areas ... with complete disregard for his personal safety . . . [often] acting as observer, navigator, photographer and radio operator," Major General James H. Doolittle pinned the Distinguished Flying Cross on Lieut. Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, commander of one of the 12th Air Force's photographic units in North Africa...
...from captain since he joined the Air Forces in 1940, the President's second oldest son (32) is a veteran of photographic flying in the Arctic, Britain and Iceland. In Africa he has one of the Air Forces' most dangerous jobs, including what pilots and photographers call "dicing"-flying as low as 100 feet over enemy targets for close-up pictures. Roosevelt has "diced" Tunisia, Sicily and Sardinia, and last week he was still trying to pile up more combat-flying time than any other man in his unit. One reason for his zeal: he knows that many...
...Plastic petroleum, developed by Gulf Oil for business machines, now lubricates the magazines of the Oerlikon 20-mm. rapid-fire gun. Reason: it stays soft, sticks to metal at arctic and tropic temperatures...