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...Army's four-motored bombers have proved superior in their categories in all theaters. Actual employment of the Boeing B-17 (Flying Fortress) over Europe has exceeded even the fondest expectations of its American proponents. It is a tribute to the determination of the Army Air Forces in developing this type of craft that the same kind of record has been made by the Consolidated B-24 in Egypt and in other areas...
...THOSE GREMLINS MUST HAVE BEEN SITTING ON YOUR WRITER'S SHOULDER WHO TYPED TIME, OCT. 5: "HE (WILLKIE) LANDED AT MOSCOW FROM A FLYING FORTRESS. . . ." NOT THAT WE AT CONSOLIDATED HAVEN'T RESPECT FOR THE 6-17; WE MERELY LIKE OUR BOMBERS TO GET THEIR JUST DUE. YOUR WRITER CORRECTS HIMSELF TOWARD END OF STORY BY SAYING, "AS THE GREAT LIBERATOR ROARED INTO THE CLOUDS. . . ." AND WE APPRECIATE THAT...
...ability of instilling great spirit and fight into an otherwise mediocre football team. Enlisting in the Air Corps a year ago, Hedblom received his training at Oxnard, Cal., and was commissioned a lieutenant last May. He was sent to Great Britain as a pilot of a Flying Fortress this summer...
...Flynn Problem. One thing Edward Joseph Flynn, of The Bronx, can do: hold The Bronx fast as the great Democratic fortress. The Bronx is his own, his native land, where the pewter-haired, craggy-faced, hazel-eyed Irishman is master of nearly all he surveys from his ninth-floor terrace apartment...
...strengthen American morale. Blind self-assurance has suffered a moral blow; the era of short-sighted faith is gone. Joe Gordon caught off second is as unlikely as Douglas MacArthur caught off Australia. Bill Dickey's throwing into center field is as impossible as a Flying Fortress missing its mark. Those things just don't happen. But Gordon was tagged out, and Dickey did make a bad toss. If that doesn't jolt our complacency, nothing will...