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...enough sadness in the world already." Striving bravely, in the best tradition of air-corps romance, to maintain a gallant gaiety in the face of impending doom, the picture fails completely to realize that its tears are obviously glycerine, its poignance pointless, and its gloom only a studio fog obscuring what should be a wholly delightful comedy...
...spotty. Fighter opposition-on some raids at least-was weak. But weather was playing the enemy's game. On one raid the cloud cover was so thick that B-29 men could hardly see beyond their wingtips as they nervously watched ice thickening on the leading edges. Soupy fog kept navigators and bombardiers on instruments. After one raid more than 70 Superforts had to make emergency landings on Iwo.*But the planes drilled through, and reported the clouds over one city glowing "like a hot plate" from the flames below...
Sister city Kobe, 20 miles northwest, was still smouldering from an earlier attack. Flyers had driven through snow, fog, thunderheads, antiaircraft fire and fairly strong fighter opposition-but they had left Kobe "one hell of a hot place...
Known officially as Fido (Fog Investigation and Dispersal Operation), the system that kept 15 British fields active during last winter's bitterest fighting consists of an installation of horizontal pipes laid parallel to each side of a landing strip. Gasoline is forced through and out of the perforated pipes with tremendous force. When ignited (by men running alongside the pipes with torches), a wall of flame roars from the jets with the noise and smoke of a forest fire. The intense heat first vaporizes the fuel in the upper (feeder) pipe, causing the smoke to subside, then burns...
Since July 1943, Fido has shepherded more than 2,500 Allied planes to safe landings. At a cost of 6,000 gallons of gasoline per landing, its price would still not be too high on fog-bound civilian airports...