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Another Texan turned Canadian was Air Gunner Raymond Carroll, veteran of 40 operational flights. Said he: "I married an English girl and as soon as this is over I'm going to settle in Vancouver." The crowd yelled approval...
...Quebec, where men often demand freedom to evade the fight for freedom, opposition to conscription reached strange extremes : In Sherbrooke, Gunner Lucien Rocheleau testified that Mrs. Theodore Provencher had told him to wrap a religious, picture in blue silk (color of the Virgin Mary), hang it around his neck. Then she had given him a special prayer to read on nine consecutive nights, finally some pills to make him sick and insure his discharge from the army. For these services his mother paid Mrs. Provencher $16. The Mounted Police charged...
Over Laon, France, a Flying Fortress got a savage jar. A bomb from another U.S. plane had struck and lodged squarely in the tail, killing the tail gunner. Lieut. Burdette Williams of Tampa, Fla. and his crew stuck with the ship, landed safely in England with the bomb still unexploded...
...Flying Fortress was on instruments in dense cloud over Italy. Tail Gunner James A. Raley, on his thirteenth mission, heard the navigator call out the altitude -19,500 feet. Then the plane jolted, seemed to stop. The intercom went out. Sergeant Raley, hurled into one of the air war's strangest adventures, figured in his lonely section that his plane had collided with another Fortress...
...carefully collected candy bars and his shoes, scrambled out, stood openmouthed. Somewhere, beyond his sight, his plane had crashed. But Gunner Raley had been alone for a long time. He had come down by himself in the tail section...