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Fighters chase the Things to the edges of a balloon barrage that would scare off a bomber pilot. But many a pilotless bomber gets through...
...with a guitar-strumming stooge against a shiny backdrop that looks like the cover of a Pocket Books mystery. Tin Tan himself wears a cock's tail in his flat black homburg, a knee-length purple velvet jacket, a steel watch chain hanging below the knees of his balloon trousers which narrow at the ankles. He is forever fondling and fussing over his mike, always starts off by jabbering such gibberish as Viriviriviri-virividee, V por Victori. At intervals he tosses in his own crazy versions of mariachi tunes, Russian melodies, Italian arias; but mostly he just spouts pocho...
...Arnold led a bomber flight to Alaska. Jimmy Doolittle was the first man to fly across the U.S. in less than 24 hours. Major General William Kepner (the Eighth Air Force fighter commander) flew around in a stratosphere balloon. Spaatz himself commanded the famous endurance flight of the Fokker monoplane Question Mark. In his crew were Lieut. General Ira Eaker, now Allied air commander in the Mediterranean, and Brigadier General Elwood ("Pete") Quesada, Ninth Air Force fighter commander in Britain...
...expert is 32-year-old Sir Nelson King Johnson of the air Ministry. He and his staff were consutled for every Commando raid and for the landings in North Africa, Sicily and Italy. Sir Nelson believes weather secrets are hidden in the upper air, uses a special balloon apparatus for readings up to 50,000 feet...
...University of Texas and planned to be lawyers, but World War I changed that. Barney went straight in as an air cadet; Benny was commissioned an infantry shavetail but switched to aviation in less than a month. Both saw service in the U.S. and France; Benny busted a German balloon eight days before the Armistice in 1918. The brothers liked the service, and became Regular Army officers in July...