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...depicting a persuasive Uncle Sam pointing a solemn finger at the U.S. and saying I WANT YOU FOR U.S. ARMY. Closer to it last week was a poster by veteran Saturday Evening Post Coverman Norman Rockwell. Created without benefit of a New Deal bureau, Artist Rockwell's machine gunner (see cut), whose wounds and exhausted cartridge belt cry aloud for assistance, was painted at the suggestion of Manhattan's Williams & Saylor Advertising Agency, for Army Ordnance. Like all good war posters, it needed no careful study to evoke in plain men a forthright fighting emotion...
Suddenly below us is the grey shadow of a Zero plane, sneaking up. Sergeant Ed Cooney, of Rushville, Ind., swings around in his gunner's position and "lowers the boom" on him. Two rapid bursts, then one of Ed's guns jams. But the other one keeps firing and the Zero falls away. Other Zeroes are in the air, climbing...
They had to learn the tremendous, all-important value of flying judgment-from the moment of take-off until they touched down once again on the airport. They had to learn to respect the tail gunner of an enemy bomber. But until cockiness got the better of them, and they scraped close to death, they could not learn to leaven courage with caution. And that took time...
Clark Gable, 41, was all set to enlist as a private in the Army Air Forces. His aim: a gunner's post. Columnist Hedda ("The Gabbler") Hopper promptly announced that because of an old agreement this meant Robert Taylor and Spencer Tracy would also enlist at the same time. Meantime Gable m.c.'d a War Department short-wave broadcast for the armed forces abroad, helped Mather Field's Army Air Forces Lieut. Jimmy Stewart overwhelm goggle-eyed Torcheuse Dinah Shore, in Hollywood for a screen career...
...inspect the bombs. They were Chinese-made. Our plane was now repaired and we carried a dozen incendiaries, while bombers following after us were loaded with demolition bombs. Tex's P-40 fighters were carrying fragmentation bombs. We started to step into the planes, but the rear gunner discovered his parachute was missing. "I'm not going to set foot in that plane unless I have a chute. I've made three emergency jumps and I'm going to have a chute or I am not going." We found him a parachute, stepped into the plane...