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Married. Robert Benchley Jr., 24, Norden (bombsight) employe, younger son of the humorist; and Elizabeth Dickinson, 23, socialite social worker; in Detroit. Like his father (and brother Nathaniel), he is an ex-president of Harvard's Lampoon...
Missing in Action. Air Forces Lieut. Colonel Charles Greening, Tokyo raider credited with devising the 20? bombsight that was used lest a Norden fall in Jap hands; in a raid over Italy...
...target when a burst of flak struck the plane. The bombardier was hit. A staff sergeant, serving both as radio operator and waist gunner, had his right leg nearly severed. The pilot shouted to the bombardier to forget the bombs, but he leaned over, dripping blood on his bombsight. and let them go. An Me-109 approached. The wounded sergeant dragged himself to his gun, shot down the Messerschmitt, then picked up a camera and photographed the crash. Two other gunners gave him a shot of morphine, put a tourniquet on his leg, nursed him safely back to base...
...planes were in the air at 7 a.m. each morning and sometimes we'd still be at it at 10 p.m.") did not bother him. He thought the B-25 (North America's medium-range Mitchell bomber, stripped of its radio, bottom gun-turret and Norden bombsight) was a lively ship...
...Major, this is my favorite target. You miss that and, rank or no rank. I'll drop you through the bomb bay without benefit of bombsight...