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Singer Deanna Durbin and Mercury Player Joseph Cotton are teamed as a west coast debutante and a flyer on leave, who thinks he is out for a good time but finds true love. Posing as a doctor at a Red Cross Blood Bank, the flyer meets the debutante who promptly shuns him, but reconsiders his affection by getting work at the airplane factory where he is stationed...
...Stalin often visits Iliushin's offices, gives unexcited pep talks to the staff. When Hitler went on his rampage, Iliushin began to toy with the idea of a flying tank-buster. The seed of the idea was the memory of a frying pan with which many a Russian flyer armor-plated his plane seat in World War I. Out of the frying pan came the fiery Stormovik, which has destroyed so many Nazi tanks that the Germans renamed it der schwarze Tod (the Black Death). Heavily armored, bristling with cannon, the Stormovik is deadliest at a perilous...
...ships. Marine Corps Major Joe Foss (26 Jap victims; Congressional Medal) arrived in a Grumman F4F. Major John Smith (19 victories; Congressional Medal) came in a Corsair. Navy Lieut. Stanley Vejtasa (ten victories; Navy Cross with two stars) dropped down in an F6F. Major Vincent ("Squeak") Burnett, champion stunt flyer and specialist in B-26 bombers, dusted in with one of the sleek Marauders...
Famed K.L.M., Royal Dutch Air Lines, the world's oldest international flyer (1920), last week added another first to its long pioneering history...
...great unknown was why United Air Lines was among the holdouts. The other two-Pan American Airways and American Export Airlines-were the first U.S. lines to fly foreign routes and naturally would not hanker for too much competition. But United is next to the largest U.S. domestic flyer, has flown international routes only since the Army's Air Transport Command gave it some war business...