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...eager to ride it as he was to rush to Manila early in December 1941, at 67, sensing another war. And when war broke out, Karl von Wiegand stood so close to it-at the end of Manila's Pier 7 during a Japanese bomber attack-that concussion permanently damaged the retinas of both eyes. Captured later by the Japanese in company with Lady Hay-Drummond-Hay, another Hearst journalist, he was held only briefly and was released because of ill health...
Grabbing the Controls. LeMay's military record is distinguished. (Among his many medals: the D.S.C., Silver Star, D.F.C.) He was, and is, a big-bomber man. At 37 he was one of the youngest two-star generals in World War II. He executed new and now classic bombing tactics with the B-17 group he directed from England against German targets. A bit later, he moved into the Far Eastern theater, risked his career by ordering his B-29 pilots to strike from the Marianas against Japanese cities at previously unheard-of low altitudes for the huge planes...
...airmen hung up another speed record last week when an Air Force four-jet B58 Hustler bomber reached Paris exactly 3 hr. 19 min. 41 sec. after passing over Roosevelt Field, L.I. (now a shopping center), where Charles Augustus Lindbergh started his famed solo transatlantic flight 34 years ago. The Hustler's speed (average: 1,050 m.p.h.) was nearly ten times as fast as Lindbergh's, who covered the 3,600-mile distance in 33 hr. 29 min. 30 sec. But Lindbergh's single-engined (223 h.p.) ship went all the way on one filling...
...Giles Chester Stedman, USNR, 63, vice president of the United States Lines and former superintendent of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, a skilled skipper famed for his rescues at sea and for evacuating 1,400 people from Singapore aboard the refitted luxury liner America in 1942 while under Japanese bomber attack; of a stroke; in London. His oddest lifesaving exploit occurred off Ireland in 1939, when a Nazi U-boat torpedoed the British freighter Olive Grove only after waiting for her 33-man crew to escape in rowboats, then fired rockets to summon Stedman's liner, the Washington...
...hook-shaped pin immobilized the trigger; a toggle switch was in the nonfiring position; a vital circuit breaker was off. Yet somehow a Sidewinder got away. The horrified Van Scyoc could only radio: "Look out, one of my missiles has fired!" A second later the explosion sent the bomber crashing against the snow-covered side of Mount Taylor. At least three members of the eight-man crew managed to parachute to safety, and rescue parties began slogging through a blizzard to hunt for any other survivors...