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...bomber crews it was a wild & woolly life. In one raid a U.S. gunner knocked down a Zero so near his plane that the flaming plane looped out of control around the bomber and spun into the ground. After the fight there was more trouble-no doing of the Jap. The bomb doors would not close. Two U.S. enlisted men were lowered on ropes under the speeding plane. Without parachutes for comfort, they shook the doors loose, were hauled back with the certainty of heroes' medals...
...Like the gunner in a Flying Fortress, they may look out through a transparent plastic top. Car bodies may be of plastic panels, tougher than steel. Tires, smaller than now, may be made of synthetic rubber. With better weight-to-horsepower ratio, with zoo-octane (instead of 74) gas in the tank, post-war cars are likely to get more miles to the gallon. Best news of all: there is a good chance they will be cheaper, perhaps as cheap as $300 (1942 value...
...GUNNER'S MATES...
Chwang was bringing ammunition and daily supplies to a machine gun crew in the front lines, when the Japs sprang the attack. "It soon became apparent that the gunner on the next machine gun down the line was not crossing his fire properly and his gun was not very effective in stopping the advance," he continued...
Born. Douglas MacArthur Brotherson, Douglas MacArthur Bryant, Douglas MacArthur Francis, Douglas MacArthur Miller, Douglas MacArthur Gunner, Douglas MacArthur Salavec, Douglas MacArthur Thompson, and Douglas Harold MacArthur ; all in New York City...