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...operate from New Caledonia and the New Hebrides, as well as from General MacArthur's sphere in Australia and New Guinea, across the incredibly inefficient and arbitrary line dividing Army-Navy command in the area (see map). The Army has recently delighted the Navy by taking to low-level attacks. High-level "precision" bombing has not been too precise in the Pacific. Last week heavy bombers went into Rabaul at mast level, and sank or damaged ten ships...
Time for Heroes? A few people wondered whether this was any time for heroic ceremonies. Some of the heroes themselves wondered. They were tired almost from the start. There is something exhilarating about coming back from a low-level bombing, from a raid over Germany at night. What about returning from a strange nightclub in a strange city to a strange hotel? Said one of the British heroes: "It's been bad physically and mentally...
...reconnaissance craft at Frei-hausen, Germany. The camera follows the raid preparations: selection of the target by the Chief of the Bomber Command in his great hall papered with maps, cluttered with ceiling-high ladders, scale rulers, calipers, telephones; designation of one experienced squadron to make a low-level attack; instruction of the chosen crews at Millerton Airfield by the Wing Commander; arming, gassing and readying the bombers; and, when night comes, the takeoff...
About six weeks ago American Airlines got a new advertising agency-Blackett-Sample-Hummert, Inc. Shortly afterward there began to appear in newspapers and magazines large advertisements, decorated with a photograph of an exuberant girl in a bathing suit and captioned rhetorically: Is there a Low-Level Airway through Southern Sunshine to California? "Fortunately" said the advertisement, "the answer...
...19th Century matured, seagoing boats outgrew the Hudson. Railroads killed the canal. But since Albany sits at the junction of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys, it found itself in command of the low-level land passage through the Atlantic-Coastal ranges, became an important rail centre. Nevertheless, Albany still looked longingly down the Hudson. Valley toward the sea. After a generation of civic agitation, in 1925 Congress authorized dredging the Hudson to permit ocean-going vessels to reach Albany. In the next seven years the War Department spent $6,000,000 scooping out a 27-ft. channel. Albany spent...