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...Neighbors. Next day, after lunch, Roosevelt moved over and took up quarters at the Embassy, receiving a smart salute from tall Soviet tommy-gunner guards as he entered. There, in his sunny private sitting room, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin met face to face and spent their first hour together. Stalin had simply walked over on the gravel path from another of the Embassy houses, his living quarters for the meeting. An hour later Churchill and Eden walked in from the British Embassy, directly across the street, and joined the group with Molotov...
...Daily Herald last week appeared the story of Sid and Syd. Neighbors from childhood, the difference between them was the way they spelled their names. In school, in scrapes, in games, in the R.A.F., they were always together. Together they were in a big Berlin raid, Sid as a gunner, Syd as a bombardier. Together they came back, Sid in his turret, Syd in the nose. Both were dead. In flag-draped coffins, side by side, they were taken home together...
...gunners win their medals by shooting the enemy out of the air. In a story released last week in Air Force (official service journal of the A.A.F.), the Army told how one gunner rang the gong by using his wits and the lore he had learned in radio school...
...bombing target the gunner-operator picked up a message in the proper code of the day. Its instruction: change course and attack a different objective. Said Air Force...
...crew looked over the side. Just below the gunner was a hole 9 ft. by 3. At the moment of the first attack a torpedo had passed clean through the Who, Me?'s bow. Below decks one of the crew found a torpedo's two-foot fin and rudder of fine stainless steel -it had sheered off the toilet seat from the crew's "head" and lodged in the crew's quarters...