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Matthews Hall will lose its most distinctive figure tomorrow when Victor Ehler trades in his janitor's duties to take over the position of Chief Gunner's Mate in the Navy. Vic will leave for the Newport, R. I. training station to rejoin the Navy after almost 17 years at Harvard...
...pilot pointed his failing plane at the carrier's deck, glided in for a crash landing. Men on the deck could see the bomber's crew, see that all but the pilot were dead. A gunner sent a burst into the bomber. It fell away, clipped one of the carrier planes, crashed into...
...bomb fragment clipped a gunner in the back of his head, apparently knocked him out. The other gunners started toward him. "Get back to that gun, you bastards!" he shouted. They got back, fast...
...models will have to be precise to the last detail. Every test that is used to train spotters, gunners, etc. requires exactly scaled models. In training gunners, for example, it is necessary to teach them to recognize whether a ship is going at maximum or at cruising speed, and the only method they have of estimating range is the size of the plane in their ring sights. Since the models are built on the precise scale of 1 to 72 (one inch represents six feet of the actual plane), the model looks to the gunner at 35 feet exactly...
...afternoon in late May 1940, when the French collapse "was so entire that death itself seemed to us absurd," Pilot Saint-Exupéry, his observer Dutertre and his young gunner were ordered to make a reconnaissance sortie over Arras. They were one of 50 reconnaissance crews in all France. Of the 23 which comprised their group, 17 had already perished. Their chances of survival even on a good day were one in three, and this sortie was an "awkward"' one. The information, even if they brought it back, would be useless, even if it were to reach...