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Adolf Hitler's retreat to elastic defenses may have been too late for anything less than the complete failure of his Russian campaign. If so, his only hope is to withdraw to the Reich and convert it (and Western Europe) into an impregnable fortress (TIME, Feb. 8). But that remained to be proved. What had been proved was that the Red Army was giving his Wehrmacht no rest or resting place...
...reputation held long after he had become one of the Air Corps' best pilots. But in 1940 a change began to come over rollicking Blondie. Assigned to Hickam Field, Hawaii, he was made Commander of a Flying Fortress outfit. And Blondie became serious, sobersided, calculating. On Dec. 7, Saunders was taxiing a Fortress across the field when Jap planes shot it from under him. He tried another, with the same result. It made him coldly furious...
...August, his planes were dropping down on Henderson Field, Guadalcanal, then a clearing barely big enough for a Fortress to land. Saunders became Airbase Commander, quickly got the field into better condition, established air supply lines for gasoline, parts and crews. At heart still a tackle (West Point 1924-25), Blondie was a Flying Commander, too, led many a bombing mission. On a raid over the Shortland Islands his pilot and co-pilot were killed. Saunders took the controls, crash-landed on a beach from which he and other survivors were picked up next...
...Force (Warner), a superbly thrilling show, is easily the best aviation film to date. Its heroine is a Flying Fortress named Mary Ann; its cast boasts no flashy stars; its battles are not embellished by Hollywood imagination. It is dedicated to the simple and excellent purpose of showing how U.S. airmen fight. The Mary Ann and her crew, a composite of many ships and men, fight in every important air battle from Pearl Harbor to the Coral Sea, including a re-enactment of Colin Kelly's attack on the battleship Haruna. In this story of one ship, Air Force...
...Made. Air Force was a tremendous undertaking, even for Hollywood. Most of it was made near Tampa. For flying sequences he had a real Flying Fortress (since lost in action in the South Pacific) and for interior shots a $40,000 Fortress model was built. Also required: a technical crew of 100 men, three camera planes, ten cameras, Army planes. The Army opened its files to Hawks and helped him make...