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...quickly far above the earth. The green color is unusual, too. Meteorites generally roar like jet planes as they approach the earth, but most observers insisted that these odd objects were completely silent. Though some of them seemed to hit the surface with a flash, brilliant even in daylight, search parties so far have found no remains of the mysterious fireballs...
...vapor-trailed sky over Schweinfurt and Bremen and other German targets eight years ago, U.S. airmen learned-the hard way-an inescapable fact about daylight bombardments. Unless designed to outfly their opposition, bombers must be escorted to & from distant targets by long-range fighters, fast enough and numerous enough to stand off enemy interceptors. The alternative: prohibitive losses. Last week over North Korea, where U.S. pilots are still flying World War II 6-29 Superforts that lesson was underscored again...
...reason the Navy is interested is the baffling problem that airplane navigators encounter near the North Pole. The magnetic compass isn't much good because of the nearness of the shifting magnetic pole. In broad daylight the navigators can steer by the sun, at night by the stars. But during the long polar twilight they can see neither sun nor stars...
Observers found other shortcomings in the performance of U.S. forces. Camouflage was sloppy, communication lines inadequate. Air strikes were too few, and too slow to attack when called. On the Rhein-Main Airfield observers saw cargo planes parked so close that they made inviting targets. Traffic moved placidly in daylight along the Frankfurt-Darmstadt autobahn while, just off the road, supply trucks piled up outside the Sunset...
Early Sunday morning Eastern Daylight Saving Time suddenly though silently becomes Eastern Standard Time. There is some dispute, we are told, as to whether 2 a.m. is the correct hour for the change...