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Flying over southeast Asia, Major Walter V. Radovich began to think about his 18-months-old son - and also about God. The Major was a crack fighter pilot. He had shot down four Jap planes, had flown through a defile not much wider than his plane's wings to blow up an enemy munition train, had won the Distinguished Flying Cross. But there was something on the Major's conscience which would give him no rest...
...Manhattan last week U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey told the rest of the story: Radovich finally went to his commanding officer and confessed that he had once accepted bribes to save two other soldiers from duty overseas. Radovich was only half a jump ahead of an investigation already under way. But he was obsessed with the idea that God would punish him by punishing his son, he said. He made a clean breast...
These were details of Radovich's wrongdoing, by McGohey's account...
...February 1943, when Radovich was a captain in the Air Forces, he was sent to Mitchel Field to organize a unit for the China-Burma-India air war. There he became acquainted with two brothers, Samuel and Elias Bayer and their nephew Jerome Usdan, thread manufacturers of New York. Samuel Bayer's son Martin, 22, and Usdan's brother Morris, 21, were both privates at Mitchel Field...