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...heavy-laden Monsoon slashed through a treetop, dented a belly blister before she began to climb. This mishap did not interfere with her flight to Manchuria. Neither did an instrument panel fire en route, nor the discovery that three vital instruments (altimeter, rate of climb gauge and airspeed indicator) were knocked out, probably by the treetop. Duplicate instruments...
...Tarawa were well equipped with masks.) Gas attacks can, of course, seriously hamper military or civilian movement. But on the other hand war gases are readily blown or washed away by wind, rain and snow, and they may be blown back in the faces of their users. The blister gases (mustard and Lewisite) cling to solid surfaces for days or weeks. To an advancing army they would be a dangerous nuisance...
...preceded us over the airport by a matter of seconds, diving to strafe the field. I peered out the side blister as we made our run and counted 14 Jap planes burning, bursting outward like brilliant red buds and then flowering into orange and black coronas...
...after 15 minutes' exposure to mustard-gas vapor. This particular grade of rubber is not only an inadequate protection but even accentuates mustard-gas burns as well as permanently contaminating the rubber itself. Mustard gas is soluble in rubber and a droplet that would produce only a small blister on bare skin may spread through the entire rubber surface, in time, and burn the whole enclosed area...
...front-page story in that morning's Washington Post bore a shocking headline: INEFFICIENCY, WASTE LAID TO WPB's IRON, STEEL BRANCH. Said the Post scoop: a young, $5,600-a-year WPB consultant named Frederick I. Libbey was cooking up a report which would blister the WPB's Iron & Steel Branch; after consultation around the country with steel experts he had found gross mismanagement in Washington; he was convinced the steel branch experts were second-rate ex-salesmen palmed off on the Government by steel companies who don't need salesmen any more. Only...