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Solider and more explosive matter now has priority over propaganda. But in the fall of 1939, when the war still looked phony, propaganda had priority over bombs. One R.A.F. crewman returning from a "bomphlet" mission shamefacedly reported that he had flipped his bundle overboard without cutting the string. Said his superior: "My God, you might have killed somebody...
...year-old crewman on the boat had been shot through the head, and had murmured: "I think I'm hit, will you look?" Now he lay on the beach. A Jap ran out of a coconut-log blockhouse into which Marines were tossing dynamite. As he emerged a Marine flamethrower engulfed him. The Jap flared like a piece of celluloid. He died before the bullets in his cartridge belt finished exploding 60 seconds later...
Cinemactor Freddie Bartholomew, 18year-old ex-child star, was sworn into the Army Air Forces in Los Angeles as a ground crewman. British-born, he took out his first U.S. citizenship papers last March, can automatically become a citizen after three months in the service. Last week, looking ahead, he figured the war "might be over in time for me to do some more acting...
SLIGHT TIME OVERSIGHT IDENTIFIED HOME OF EVERY CREWMAN IN "CHENNAULT'S PAPPY" [TIME, NOV. 30] EXCEPT CAPTAIN ROBERT C. WILLIAMS, PILOT FROM FLINT. WE ARE AS PROUD OF BOB AS WE ARE OF OUR EXCELLENT WAR GOODS. HOWEVER, IF CHOICE MUST BE MADE, WE WOULD PREFER OUR FIGHTERS AND OUR ENEMIES, RATHER THAN TIME, TO HAVE REASON TO REMEMBER FLINT...
...skipper and an able seaman. Carrying the Crimson colors were David C. Noyes, Jr. '44, skipper, and Paul Van Buren '46, whose boat was entered in the first division and John C. Burton '44, who skippered his craft in the second division with the help of crewman Harold S. Van Buren...