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...sacrifice to defend one's self against impending disaster? What a ludicrous and tragic situation that soldiers must beg, actually beg, for arms to defend people who, by their very actions, don't seem to give a damn. The fine American institution of the Sunday motor trip is far more important than a boatload of supplies to the tankmen and aviators in Egypt. Sacrifices? Look to the Chinese people and learn what the word truly means...
...already warming plane in which I was acting radioman. He laid his topee carefully on a palm stump so the slipstream wouldn't blow it off and climbed up on the wing beside my cockpit. 'So long!' he yelled above the roar of the motor. 'See you in Honolulu sometime.' Then he climbed down and stood for a few seconds with his head hanging in that quizzical way of his, his eyes looking up. Suddenly he clambered up on the wing again and shouted through the wind, 'Gee, John, I wish we could...
...Russians said the Germans had a new fighter over Stalingrad, the Messerschmitt 109-G, powered by a liquid-cooled motor, mounting three cannon and two machine guns, effective as high as 40,000 feet. Such a plane would be formidable against Britain, too, because the British Spitfire's efficiency declines above 30,000 feet...
...first time the U.S. Government last week officially recognized the production efforts of individual factory workers, handed five Packard Motor Car employes WPB's newly created award for production short cuts. The Packard Stakhanovites* received almost one-third of all the awards made-got the only award handed to the automobile industry...
...young men who told it to veteran War Correspondent Bill White, son of the famous editor, were four officers of Motor Torpedo Boat Squadron 3, almost the last active remnants of the crew that brought General Douglas MacArthur safely out of the Philippines...