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...every plane in operation there is a successor in the works incorporating the knowledge gained in combat around the world. The Flying Fortress' successor will have even greater bomb capacity, fire power, range and speed. > The trend is toward ever bigger bombers. On display was a mock-up (wooden dummy) of a bomber capable of carrying far larger bombs than Britain's present four-ton blockbusters...
Probably those liberals who were around when the Business School was founded in 1908 expected it to degenerate into a fortress of reaction, sending forth grim-mouthed young capitalists, armed with a bull whips with which to scourge labor. But the School has, happily, avoided the pitfalls and temptations to which any incubator for young executives is heir; and now, when it is being given over completely to the needs of the armed forces, it can safely be called one of Harvard's most successful experiments...
...died at 28 he was probably the youngest man in the U.S. Army to wear a colonel's eagles. He went from the ranks to become a flying cadet, got his commission and his pilot's wings in 1939. He received the D.F.C. for flying a Fortress with the famed 19th Bombardment Group to the Philippines in September 1941, added an Oak Leaf Cluster for bombing a Jap battleship Jan. 9, 1942. Six weeks later in Java he earned a Silver Star by saving a fellow officer in the face of enemy fire, later got an Oak Leaf...
Frankly & Humbly. Just after midnight on Oct. 21 Captain Eddie, with seven Army officers and enlisted men, climbed into a Flying Fortress, took off on a special mission to the South Pacific. By next morning the compass had gone awry, the radio was out of kilter, they were lost. They crash-landed in the ocean, clambered into three rafts...
While Allied fortunes in North Africa were in suspense, the European air offensive rattled on in high gear. From The Netherlands to the Mediterranean, Allied planes pounded at Hitler's continental fortress...