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When his plane got up to altitudes of 15,000 ft. and over, Lieut. H. P. began to have muscular cramps. His skin crawled, and he was sick. A Fortress navigator, H. P. said nothing about this to the other men in the crew. But one day on a training flight he vomited; the pilot whirled the bomber back to base immediately...
Mighty Cassino, famed northern anchor of the 25-mile "G for Gustav" Line, fell early (see below). West of the fallen fortress, the Poles pushed into Piedimonte and uprooted the anchor of the supposedly powerful secondary "Hitler Line...
Before entering its sentence the court-martial considered the accused's record: he had piloted a Fortress in 25 missions over Europe, had once brought back his plane on one engine, was a first-class fighting man. They also considered his explanation: he was busy instructing a student, did not notice the airliner...
Over Laon, France, a Flying Fortress got a savage jar. A bomb from another U.S. plane had struck and lodged squarely in the tail, killing the tail gunner. Lieut. Burdette Williams of Tampa, Fla. and his crew stuck with the ship, landed safely in England with the bomb still unexploded...
...tons of bombs had been well & truly laid across Fortress Europe, and the bleeding Luftwaffe had lost some 700 fighters...