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Recently cheery, white-haired Russell Madill, 49, chief of the Magnetic Division of the Dominion Observatory at Ottawa, announced that the pole was some 200 miles north and 75 miles east of its previously announced location. He confirmed the observation of the navigator on the U.S. B-29 Pacusan Dreamboat, who two weeks earlier had found the pole where it was not supposed to be. The navigator's report neither surprised nor vexed Madill, who has mothered the wandering pole for 25 years...
...Navy's James V. Forrestal's statement that the United States was maintaining the strongest fleet in the Eastern Mediteerranean to "support United States policies in that area"--as the Secretary put it. Nor was there anything indefinite or undecided in the whopping hops of the Army's Pacusan Dreamboat or the Navy's Truculent Turtle across the Pacific...
With true sportsmanship, the Navy helped the Army in its attack on the record. Ready for the take-off in Hawaii, the Boeing Superfortress Pacusan Dreamboat, 27,000 lbs. overweight, was expected to need every mile of runway it could get. The Navy connected its John Rodgers airfield outside Honolulu with the Army's Hickam Field, gave the Dreamboat 13,500 feet. It took about half that. Actually, the Army had little hope of bettering the Turtle's mark, trumpeted that its $3,000,000 flight over the Pole to Cairo would test performance in polar regions...
Carrying 38½ tons of gasoline, the Dreamboat had no room for de-icing equipment, ran into a nightmare of icing conditions over the Arctic. But it made, the 9,500-mile run in 39½ hours. Its crew had gathered evidence that the North Magnetic Pole was 200 miles north of the position shown on the charts. They had also proved that transpolar air war was possible: the Army's new B-36 bomber-or any comparable foreign plane-could make a similar flight carrying an atomic bomb...
Hank "the Broon" Sheller and Red English spent six days of their leave together--on the train. Tom Wilcox, "Dreamboat" Walker, Sam Wolf, et al, let no grass grow under their respective feet, for they all had dates immediately after returning to the Hub. What were your dates' names, boys? What do you mean, you don't know...