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Heavy bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force celebrated Bastille Day with smashing daylight raids on German air installations at Villacoublay, Amiens and famed Le Bourget airport (where Lindbergh landed) near Paris. TIME Correspondent William Walton covered the Le Bourget raid from the transparent nose of the Flying Fortress Georgia Peach, jammed in with Navigator B. L. Otto ("Blotto") and Bombardier Johnny Ozier. His report follows...
...James was chief of the Times's Bureau in Paris, where he so won the respect and friendship of French officials that he was made a member of the French Legion of Honor. In Paris he covered the arrival of Atlantic Flyer Lindbergh, considers that one of the most important stories he ever handled...
...Colonel H. Norman Schwarzkopf, onetime superintendent of New Jersey State Police when the Lindbergh baby was kidnaped and murdered, is trying to improve Persia's rural police, the undisciplined, isolated officers who patrol villages and outlying districts...
Fulton Lewis was just another commentator until he arranged Charles Lindbergh's famed broadcast in September 1939. He met the aviator at a dinner party, heard his views on airpower, his recent European experiences, offered to put him on the air. Lindbergh was a national sensation. Lewis was "delighted. . . . It meant a scoop for a young guy." He has since objected mightily to being called an isolationist, but is proud of his record as a non-interventionist: "I was just yelling for a little more time, and I got it." Some of his critics think they hear echoes...
...Washington) commentator to take a vacation and let him substitute without pay. He also did a commentary on District of Columbia fish and where to catch them. When WOL offered him a commentator's job in 1937 at $25 a week, he took it. A few years later Lindbergh came along...