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...year-old C-47 never before carried such strange armaments or unusual people. Instead of guns, the army ingloriously stuck a huge loudspeaker into the old "Gooney Bird's" black belly. And every night, two young Korean girls, looking like high school students, clambered into the "Gooney Bird" and settled down for a night's work...
...Gooney Bird" flights are designed not to induce surrenders but to create unrest. By week's end, however, the Communists themselves gave the "Gooney Bird" its biggest pat on the tail. The two girls, known only as Miss L. and Miss C. to the Communists, were officially branded as war criminals...
...also known as the "Flying Boxcar," flew into Berlin's Tempelhof airfield, carrying five tons of steel wool and textiles. The American crew had some coffee, got a weather briefing for the return flight to Wiesbaden. Exactly a year before, the first wave of C-47s ("Gooney birds," to U.S. airmen) .had flown a cargo of milk, flour and medicine into Tempelhof. Since then, in 235,314 flights, the airlift had carried 1,943,655.9 tons of supplies into besieged Berlin...
...Japs had eaten all the island's gooney birds, and most of its rats. Everywhere were relics of Major James ("Send us more Japs") Devereux's stand: U.S. ammunition was stacked in neat piles; rusted machinery was everywhere...
...anxiously waiting for the Gooney bird eggs to hatch. They are due to break any day now. A lottery was drawn up some time ago, with tickets marked for every minute of every day for about two weeks. When the captain of the base sees the first young Gooney, he will mark down the minute, hour and the day and the one holding the ticket corresponding to this will win the big prize (about...