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...spite of the increasing intensity of aerial warfare, no U.S. flyer has yet been able to beat Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's alltime record of 26 kills in World...
Last week he took a flyer of his own in theater operating. With Playwright Russel Crouse, Actor Elliott Nugent and others, he bought a Broadway theater (the Hudson)-"so we needn't be subject to certain guys' whims and fancies." Naturally he also bought into the first show which he hopes will be produced there, a fall item for Boris Karloff being written by Lindsay and Crouse...
Like other squadrons, they have their separate mess, quarters and administration. But at Red Cross clubs, movies, officers' clubs and post exchanges they mingle freely with white soldiers and have felt no particular race consciousness. Said a fellow flyer last week (a Missourian in a white squadron operating from the same base...
Bull's-Eye. In the South Pacific, a U.S. flyer landed after disregarding orders by flying through his own side's flak to shoot down two Jap bombers. When he explained, "I figured if they couldn't hit the Japs, they couldn't hit me," he was grounded for a month...
...most important new invention is "trimetrogon" photography. This enables a flyer to photograph the ground below from horizon to horizon. The equipment consists of three cameras with wide-angle lenses, one pointing straight down and one obliquely to each side. By means of triangulation and ingenious translating devices, distortions resulting from the oblique angles are corrected in the final print. The trimetrogon method, by making it possible to space charting flights 25 miles apart instead of only four to six, has enormously accelerated mapping. Last fortnight its inventor, Lieut. Colonel Gerald ("Colonel Fitz") Fitzgerald, Chief of the Air Force...