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Captain Arthur J. Staveley, U. S. A. A. F., pilot of a Flying Fortress on the Northern Convoy Patrol, will address a meeting for all University members interested in aviation service to be held this Thursday at 7:30 o'clock in Emerson D. The New England Aviation Cadet Committee working jointly with Elliott Perkins '23, chairman of the War Service Information Bureau, and the Harvard War Information Committee is sponsoring the meeting...
...corps two years ago, Dicks Bong helped his father with oat and potato crops at Poplar, Wis. (pop. 462). His first combat was in the Buna battle of Dec. 27, when he twice rang the bell with a Zero and a dive-bomber. During the smashing of the Lae convoy in early January he nailed three Zeros. He got another in the Bismarck Sea battle...
Little Ships. Escort carriers, converted or built from merchant hulls, do not carry many planes-a few fighters, and torpedo bombers which carry depth charges-but with those planes they can provide extensive cover for convoys beyond the range of land-based patrol planes. When the Allies announced the formation of an "air umbrella" which would provide air protection for convoys from continent to continent (TIME, May 10), escort carriers took over in that loneliest spot of the convoy lanes where the land-based planes turn back and leave the ships on their...
...Deeds. "Escort Carrier B," in four sustained engagements, attacked eleven U-boats, scored two sure kills, four "very probables" and four "probables." Her planes allowed no enemy submarine to get closer than 18 miles to the convoy. Her casualties: one TBF damaged by 20-mm. ack-ack from a U-boat, its radio operator wounded...
...carrier's first attack was made at dusk, when a TBF attacked a U-boat many miles off the convoy's starboard bow. Depth bombs straddled the fully-surfaced submarine, but it sank with no trace of a definite kill. At dawn next day the planes took off again. Another sub was spotted and attacked. But there was no certain evidence of a kill...