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...chapel of Santo Domingo Church (built 1588) people were at their prayers. Few ever knew what hit them. Flames licked up over the brown stucco walls as more bombs rained down. They hit Santa Catalina College for girls, the Philippine Treasury Building. Fire swept a half-dozen square blocks. By next morning, first count of the raid's toll showed: 40 dead, 150 wounded. Next day at noon, the Japanese returned, again scored heavily in congested residential districts...
Newsmen had long wanted to know how the Secretary explained the fact that an article by him in Collier's last August broke the news that a U.S. observer was aboard the American-built Catalina flying boat that spotted the Nazi battleship Bismarck and called the British fleet to the kill...
...Consolidated boat was at 18,000 feet over the Atlantic and the oxygen was sobbing comfortably in the crew's masks. Then it happened. Somehow the automatic pilot jammed. With its right aileron all the way down, the 15-ton Catalina went into a violent left turn, headed for the sea. In the dizzy spiral dive the aileron carried away, took part of the tip of the wing with it. Then the left aileron ripped off. An operator in the United Kingdom heard the frenetic chirp from the Catalina's radio: "Both ailerons gone...
...heard no more, expected never to hear. One new Catalina was charged off as "lost on ferry." Six hours later the boat, with its truncated wing raffish as an empty tooth socket, turned up at a United Kingdom seaport, lurched to a landing. Somehow its pilots had straightened it out, just off the water, flown it in-with no banking controls. It was another incredible episode in the saga of the Catalina, which the U.S. Navy calls...
...amazed by this performance was the Catalina's builder, big, blue-eyed Major Reuben Hollis Fleet, chief executive and chief owner of Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Like all oldtimers in Consolidated's tightly knit hierarchy, he has long since ceased to be surprised at any feat a Cat performs. But he has not lost his capacity for pride. It has plenty to feed on in the Cat's nest in a sunlit stretch between crowded Pacific Highway and San Diego (Calif...