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More spectacular was the second India-based B-29 raid: nearly 2,000 miles for a daylight strike at Singapore, the first since Britain's naval bastion fell to the Japs in February 1942. Except for a B-29 night raid last August on Palembang, Sumatra, this was the longest mission ever made by bombers. Tokyo said 30 B-29s were involved...
...October Air Transport, a veteran airlines pilot, Pat Curtin, tells some of the airmen's strange stories about migrating birds. Most collisions occur at night or in clouds, when both planes and birds are flying blind. Migrating birds usually fly at night, stopping to feed in daylight. Ornithologists agree that they seem to have a sixth sense which enables them to fly even in "instrument weather." Curtin says that one pilot, chasing flocks of ducks, has seen them take cover in clouds. Once a covey flew round & round inside a small cloud while he circled it in his plane...
...worked over the two badly wounded men, breaking out jungle medical kits and putting on bandages. As we worked we could hear screams and wailing outside, for the bombs had riddled several Fili pino houses. It wasn't until daylight, when our injured men had been taken away in an ambulance, that I fully realized what happened to our house. The side near the street was riddled with bomb fragments...
...Sachs first met his fellow Viennese in 1904. Sachs was then a law-school graduate bored with the law, fascinated by literature and, especially, by the psychological insights of Dostoievski. "I hoped to tread in broad daylight the obscure and labyrinthine paths of passion which he had traced." At this point, Sachs came upon Freud's Interpretation of Dreams. "I said to myself that these stupendous revelations needed and merited the most complete scrutiny; even if it should in the end turn out that every theory advanced in its pages were wrong, I would not regret the loss...
...main roads; these were still being ripped by "the few" of Major General Chennault's air force. Instead, he wormed ahead on footpaths between the yellow-stubbled nee fields, on mule trails through the hills, and-most of all-on the rivers, by sampans which could hide in daylight along banks overhung by trees...