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...Hopefuls: It is the practice at Statistical School to adjust the raining schedule so as to carry out the full amount of instruction hours and still provide the 4th Saturday afternoon for uniform shopping time in Boston. This means one or two night classes but does allow a daylight purchasing period...
Worst off, perhaps, were the pilots who patrolled Britain's coastal waters and hunted U-boats in ancient de Haviland training planes. They felt safer in the daylight, because when they flew home at dusk they could clearly see their eight-cylinder engine becoming red hot. When flown into a wind of more than 50 m.p.h. velocity, the de Haviland "would float sedately backward, its propeller thrashing the air with undiminished enthusiasm." Conveniently, the de Haviland not only landed as gently as "an old hen settling on her eggs," but also floated "like a balloon" on the surface...
Down in the nose, Jack Mathis was ready. He was a country boy from Texas, slow but sure, not very excitable and yet pretty excited now. This was the biggest daylight raid the Eighth Air Force had ever carried to Hitler...
...Ventura was lost in the raid, which was made in daylight last evening. It followed attacks on enemy shipping off the Dutch coast, in which RAF Typhoons set afire one armed trawler without loss. Three, German planes were destroyed over British last night...
...Foreign Office, the Reich President's palace and Hitler's huge Chancellery stand in a row. This was Berlin's heart and the administrative center of the Third Reich. Here the attackers' blockbuster bombs created havoc, and there were many Berliners who never saw daylight again...