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...crews. What he saw on this U.S. airdrome was duplicated on the airfields of the R.A.F.'s big night bombers. There, too, the pilots and crews were killing time in barracks and canteens, while outside the big, black Stirlings and Lancasters gleamed wet on the runways. Over the Dover Strait, on the route to Germany, the fog lay thick and grey. At 10,000 feet, the operational altitude for the big planes, the long summer twilight never ended: the bombers flying on night missions now would fly by daylight when they reached that height...
When Winston Churchill in 1940 promised the British people "nothing but blood, toil, tears and sweat," he was as much the voice of Britain as was the roar of Spitfires over the chalk cliffs of Dover. Last fortnight, when he offered the world a British way toward peace with security (TIME, March 29), he voiced the yearnings not only of his own countrymen but of all the Allied peoples. Among them were many differences, some deep and wide; but common to them all was a desire to see at least the outlines of a better world...
Major Heflin has been a squadron commander at Chanute Field, Illinois. He was Headmaster of Greenbriar Military School in West Virginia for about ten years, and he has been a Reserve officer since 1924. He lives in Dover, Massachusetts, and has a wife and three children. In the first week of June, 1942, he was made Commandant of the Statisticians at Harvard...
...schoolboy in the Grocers Company School in Hackney Downs, London, young Gibson invented perhaps the best of all naval war games, Dover Patrol, in 1911. (It was not manufactured until he was mustered out of the British horse artillery in 1919.) In 1925 Gibson designed Aviation, an excellent air war game, and bought up the rights to a French infantry war game, L'Attaque! In 1932 he put all three together in one package as Tri-Tactics. (Gibson sold a whole set of his war games for use in the wardroom of the lost British battleship H.M.S. Hood.) Twice...
...Watched a mimic air-raid rescue in the rubble behind St. Paul's Cathedral, saw a movie of the 1940 blitz, inspected the bomb shelters in Dover's spacious caves...