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...pilots of fighting age and temper who, the War Department announced, are also going to Great Britain for duty as observers are young lieutenants -mostly under 25. When they finish their tours abroad, they will know something firsthand about air fighting in modern war. The War Department said that they would do their observing both in multi-seated bombers and in pursuit planes (Spitfires, Hurricanes, etc.). Pursuit observers cannot expect diplomatic immunity from the Luftwaffe, for Spitfires and Hurricanes have only one seat. Already, according to a British account, one U.S. observer who took a Spitfire up for a trial...
...China last fortnight Franklin Roosevelt's oldest son Jimmy addressed Hong Kong's American Club, last week shook hands with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek in Chungking, heard his first air-raid alarm (minus planes), got ready to fly to Cairo for a firsthand view of British Near East strategy. Seeking Pacific Clip per passage for himself and Major Gerald Thomas, his companion, Jimmy had found the Clipper booked up. Most vulnerable reservation was that of a U.S. General. Captain Roosevelt...
...conclusion may I say a word or two on a somewhat different but closely related subject. I assume you asked me to speak today because as a traveler recently returned from Great Britain I could give you may firsthand impression of a country at war. Up to this point I have confined my remarks to a purely factual account of the British universities and some aspects of the operations of their system of drafting an army...
...know yet what the newspapers have published about the capture and destruction of El Wak and the part that the South African troops played, but just in case you are interested I am going to give you a firsthand account...
...took over, Koppell settled in Palestine, became business manager of the Palestine Post for one and a half years. In 1936 he got into the U.S. on the quota, took out citizenship papers at once. Then he traveled for two years to get to know his new homeland at firsthand...