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...inventors, H. Erwin Hale and Irving Doyle, began work on the sight in 1938. With military secrecy lifted, Hale told the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences in Dayton that the sight, known as K8, has been found three or four times as accurate as mechanical sights. K-8 is not the first electrical sight: the British have a similar one, called Mark II, and a third, developed by General Electric, is in use in U.S. Superfortresses (the Germans are believed to have no comparable sight...
...according to Hale, K-8 is the first to compensate for all the factors that deflect a bullet in air combat...
...Hale declared that at 1,000 yards in fast-moving air combat K-8 scores 50% as many hits as a stationary gun firing at a stationary target on the ground. Said Hale: "When it is realized that a pursuit ship must come within 200 to 400 yards to score effective hits, it is readily apparent that the K-8 sight provides a really deadly defense" But while K-8 takes some of the human element out of shooting, there is still a wide margin for error...
Lieut. General George C. Kenney's Far Eastern Air Force had stepped up its bombing of air bases and oil supplies in Celebes and Borneo; Major General Willis H. Hale's Seventh Air Force had smashed at the Bonin and Volcano Islands; Chennault had raided Formosa; the southern Palau Islands had been seized by U.S. troops...
...Reed died last week as he had lived-fighting. In 18 years in the U.S.Senate (1911-29) he had heaped fire & brimstone on the League of Nations, Prohibition, women suffragists, Federalism and numberless other targets. His last attack was on the doctors who wanted to hospitalize him. Hale & hearty almost to the last, he had spent a strenuous summer fishing at his north Michigan ranch. Now, at 82, he preferred to die in his spacious log house, doctors notwithstanding...