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...Hong Kong. The first sub sinking admitted by Japan (last January) was only 75 miles southeast of Yokohama. Some U.S. subs have penetrated Tokyo Bay to gather information on enemy fleet dispositions and to sink Jap merchantmen as they sailed, loaded, out of the harbor. Last month a French flyer who stole a 14-year-old biplane and escaped to Chungking from Indo-China reported that U.S. subs had made it so hot in that area that the Japs no longer used Cam Ranh Bay as a naval base. Nowadays Jap warships are forced to provide convoys for supply ships...
...Oklahoma rural-mail carrier. But it was highly satisfactory to blast the fears of former commanding officers who, on fitness reports, had often left open to question Smitty's "presence of mind." Nineteen planes shot down in half as many months by the 27-year-old flyer was a fitting answer, and probably made John Smith of Oklahoma...
...recent statement that Nazi leaders would be tried and punished by United Nations tribunals after the war (TIME, Aug. 31). Berlin propagandists suddenly associated the chaining of prisoners with the allegation that the British planes had bombed German hospitals in North Africa. They alleged that a German flyer had been hanged in the tatters of his own parachute. They screamed that German prisoners in Canada had been scalped...
Married. Major James Warner Bellah, 43, veteran flyer, adventure writer; and Third Officer ("second lieutenant") Helen Lasater Hopkins, 27, of the WAACs; he for the fifth time; in Nashville. She said the ceremony was the first WAAC wedding...
Blonde, brown-eyed Jackie Cochran got into almost everything early. At four she was orphaned, at 14 she was an experienced beauty-parlor operator, at 24 she was about to enter the London-Melbourne race as the only U.S. woman flyer (she only made Bucharest). Today she is not quite 34, and the acknowledged No. 1 feminine flyer of the U.S., the successful manager of a cosmetic business and a model orphanage, the mistress of four country and city homes, the wife of Big Businessman Floyd Odium...