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Colonel Kearby was 32-a tall, slim, calm, slightly greying artist at the controls of his P-38 Lightning. He had at least 21 Jap planes (plus seven probables) to his credit, had received the Congressional Medal of Honor in January for shooting down six enemy ships in a single engagement. For a time after that Texan Kearby was miserable in a New Guinea desk job. But he maneuvered himself back to combat duty four weeks...
...Kwajalein an alert officer stumbled on a neat, deserted hut. On the earth floor lay a plant stalk, with a carefully burned-out message in Marshallese. The officer picked it up, tied it carefully to his pack, said impressively: "A secret message to some Jap...
This flow of supply keeps Eire's shaky economy going. It also feeds and heats Nazi Minister Eduard Hempel's big staff on Dublin's Northumberland Road. And it fuels Jap Consul Fetsuya Beppu's auto on its way to the local golf course. Dev's people and guests were in danger of becoming cold, hungry pedestrians...
...Germans. His Thunderbolt was downed by flak three weeks after his 18th victory (TIME, March 13). The only other Army man on the list is much-decorated Lockheed Lightning Pilot Captain Richard R. Bong (D.S.C., D.F.C., Silver Star, Air Medal, a cluster of ten Oak Leaf Clusters), whose 21 Jap kills put him in fourth place...
...year-old Colonel Karl L. Polifka, had been "dicing" (mapping territory by aerial photography) for years, had flown 125 missions over enemy-held territory, both German and Jap. Eaker figured Pop was too valuable to lose, thought he had better ground him before Pop's luck...