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...R.A.F. brought TIME'S readers many stark, poignant stories of the men who turned back the Luftwaffe. She had learned to know a very great many of them by their first names at the front, had carried Paris lingerie home to their girls in England, given their Cobber Kain (the Paddy Finucane of 1940) a party at Maxim's the week before he crashed...
...Cobber" Kane...
Reciprocal tons of Allied bombs whistled down on Germany and most Allied air pilots were aloft daily for as long as men & machines could endure. Reported killed in an accident during the week was Flying Officer Edgar James ("Cobber Kain "D. F. C., 22, of New Zealand. Prime Allied targets included oil depots at Hamburg and Kiel, factories in the Ruhr. A French naval formation for the first time let go explosives instead of literature near Berlin, in retaliation for the hundreds killed & wounded around Paris...
Heroes. Stories of individual exploits last week tended to support the entire R. A. F.'s record of desperate heroism. On the day fighting in the Low Countries began, Australian Pilot "Cobber" Kane returned to his unit with shrapnel wounds in his hands. "Turned out nice again, hasn't it?" said he to his adjutant, then took his machine into action. During the week he accounted for ten German planes...
Engaged (Really). New Zealander Edgar James ("Cobber") Kain, 22, Great Britain's first World War II Ace (five Nazi kills, a possible sixth), convalescing from 20 shrapnel wounds; and his best girl Joyce Phillips, repertory actress, who doesn't believe in getting married until the war is over (TIME, April 15); after a 90-mile dash from Peterborough, where she is playing in The Importance of Being Earnest, to Birmingham to buy an engagement ring...