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...Reward. The circus made one trip to Africa, later flew down again to join Pat's Ninth Air Force Bomber Command for the spectacular Ploesti oil refineries raid, the long-range thrust at Wiener-Neustadt. Ted personally led the Liberators on the Wiener-Neustadt show. When they returned to the African base, General Pat was there to greet him with a bottle of whisky for the victory toast...
...question that troubled the defenders of all Axis Europe. Sergeant Keeling had just returned from a 2,500-mile round trip to Wiener-Neustadt in Austria, 27 miles south of Vienna. The attack on Austria had required the longest flight over enemy territory ever made by planes of the Middle East Command, one of the longest for any theater in this war. It caught the defenders completely by surprise. Bomb bursts blanketed the sprawling plant where an estimated 400 Messerschmitts were hatched each month. Scores of hits were seen among some 400 finished fighters parked in neat rows on fields...
...raid on Wiener-Neustadt climaxed a week of diversified air attacks over Greater Germany. As the nights grew longer the offensive arc expanded steadily. Early in the week British and Canadian heavy bombers gave the twin Rhineland industrial cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen their 57th aerial pounding of the war. On the same night fast Mosquito bombers struck at the Ruhr and the Fighter Command jabbed at airfields and railways in France and the Low Countries...
...John's (the college of the 100 classics) opened his Odyssey and called the class to order. His students, sprawled around the library in Service Club No. 3 at Fort George G. Meade, Md., were 24 privates and officers, including a couple of majors. Teacher John O. Neustadt called first on a bulb-nosed little buck private...
...What," prodded Teacher Neustadt, "do you think was Ulysses' philosophy?" . . . "Why do you think Ulysses really wanted to get home...