Word: flyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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British and American pilots wondered how any German could live in the inferno below. Said fine flyer: "The Ruhr is lit up, messed up and ruined. The hearts of the cities are dead." Perhaps the main targets - Münster, Osnabrück, Rheine, Coesfeld, Siegen, among many others-were now only names for history, the relics of air power's biggest day in its biggest week...
...mighty gadget for aircraft, good in peace as well as war, was taken out of military wraps last week. It is an automatic navigation instrument that helps a flyer to know where he is at any instant, even in bad weather. The machine, officially known as the Air Position Indicator, but called "The Brain" by its makers, greatly reduces the amount of calculation a navigator needs to make...
Even for those whose husbands are still in the U.S. there is endless waiting. Said the wife of a flyer at Wisconsin's Truax Field: "I hope this war gets over with so my husband and I can be together for good. I'm sick of living in a hole in the wall and seeing him only once a week. I want to have some...
...Gibbs slickly manipulates the fortunes of the Haddon family to show how Britain faces up to war. As Dr. Haddon goes on his troubled rounds, his lady frets over their son Peter, in love with a friend's wife. Daughter Pearl is forced to choose between a German flyer and a nice American sergeant. Author Gibbs deftly solves the problems, or sends insoluble characters off to heroic death...
From the time they meet in the theater's bomb cellar during an alert, Rosalind's affair with her flyer is beset by the uncertainties, urgencies and misunderstandings of war, and by the jealousy of a young 4-F dancer (Marc Platt) whom she has coached to a featured spot in the show. But in the end the flyer proves faithful (he was away on a secret mission), the young dancer dies in a bombing, and Rosalind carries on with the show while her new husband goes off to the wars again...