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...course with blind-flying instruments. Engineering Officer Wright had 71 other instruments to read. Weather reports were received every 20 minutes, position reports transmitted every half-hour. The ship flew steadily at 6,000 ft. above a heavy layer of clouds, blotting out the ocean. As night fell Navi gation Officer Noonan made a dozen trips to the aft observation hatch to ''shoot the stars." At midnight the men shared a supper of special self-heating foods. No one slept in the comfortable after-cabin berths. All night the four Hornets droned...