Word: bombe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...interest in Greber's heavily accented notions, never asked a question. Next fall, when the full Greber report will be ready, they would probably put some of the questions Ottawans are already asking: 1) how much will it cost? 2) how will it stand up to an atom bomb...
...widely publicized attack by the House Un-American Activities Committee on Dr. Edward U. Condon, director of the National Bureau of Standards (TIME, March 15), has helped scare other valuable scientists away. Last week the Atomic Scientists of Chicago, Inc. (all of whose members worked on the atom bomb project in wartime) offered some proof of how the rank & file of science feels about Government service...
...novel" about wartime flying that should be dismissed as fiction and read as a document. Written by two 20th Century-Fox screen writers, it could be shot from the cuff by any resourceful director (Hollywood bought it before publication). Its authors were also among the first U.S. flyers to bomb Hitler's Fortress Europe...
Yaleman Beirne Lay Jr. (I Wanted Wings) was commander of the 48th Bomb Group when he was shot down over France (the French underground rescued him and he was back in England three months later). Sy Bartlett, aide-de-camp to General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz, was one of the first U.S. Air Forces men to arrive in England, flew on many a mission over Europe and later over Japan. Their book, for all its embarrassing concessions to scenario requirements, is an exciting, credible record of what was felt and endured by the first U.S. bomber crews to tangle with...
When Brigadier General Savage came down to take over the hard-luck 918th Bomb Group, he found an outfit whose morale and fighting efficiency were shot. They had seen too many of their ships and men go down and were pretty sure they weren't accomplishing a thing. Savage changed all that. He did it by singling out the incompetents and cowards by name, leading the group on most of the missions. If his discipline and briefings read like a cross between any army manual and a football pep talk, many a combat man will remember that just such...