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...picture from Fort Banning of what looked like a nail-spitting, weather-beaten machine gunner from way back turned out to be of Lieut. Colonel Frank Murphy, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, who went on leave for military duty just a month...
...would pick out the biggest and the fattest troop-carrying aircraft. . . . Then I would call to my gunner, 'Tallyhoo, Andy,' and ... I would see our bullets cross-stitch the fat troop-carrying aircraft up and down, back and forth. . . . Then I would wait for the blood to come out of the holes made by our bullets. That's what I'd do, by God, that's what I'd do. Then . . . you know what I'd do? I'd give the motor everything it had, and I'd ram the Goddamn...
...York they got in touch with the British consul. The boys had taken a cattle boat to England to enlist in the R.A.F. soon after the war began. They had flown over Germany, Poland, France and Libya. One, a gunner, said he had shot down 56 enemy planes; his friend had shot down more than that. Both deprecated the idea that these were exceptional scores...
...gunner," Kelly Albert, was a Detroit boy who had once worked for Ford, had enlisted in the Canadian tank corps, whence he had been AWOL since April. The "sergeant pilot," Robert Poynter, another Detroit boy, had worked for Hudson, had enlisted in Canada in the Polish armed forces in November 1941, but had been taken home by his parents as underage. On his 20th birthday he enlisted again, was honorably discharged. He started to bum around, met Albert. "We had to say something," said "Gunner" Albert...
...problems, the setting up of a Combined Committee on Air Training in North America (in Washington), and a start on standardization of training methods. According to this nice theory, in the future a Chinese navigator might take over in a U.S. plane piloted by a Canadian with a Belgian gunner and a Greek bombardier...