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...hedgehop across tea plantations to escape into the mountains. Another P-40 pilot, unable to take off, sat in his cockpit until a Zero set his plane afire and forced him to run for it. Two American Negro workers mounted a machine gun without cover on a runway, blazed away furiously at the zooming Zeros...
...buckets, shot gazelles for meat and kept tinkering with the plane. Heavy rains began to fill the river. The mechanics hitched a rope to the plane's nose and got natives to tug it up the bank. A month after the accident the plane roared down a makeshift runway and took off, leaving natives agog...
...strapped down to his seat with a parachute and a safety belt and had to climb out of the upside-down cockpit eight feet under water. And as if that wasn't enough for one day, the plane that brought him back to Guadalcanal skidded off the runway and piled up in the coral-crusty...
...Guadalcanal U.S. air power has been a shoestring magnificence. U.S. planes operate from a runway built by the Japs. The planes are maintained by mechanics who work blacked out under ponchos with flashlights. The pilots go out on two or three missions a day. They sleep out a chunk of each night in foxholes. They never complain. And they always win. So far U.S. pilots have shot down more than 400 Jap planes. In August 1940, when the Battle of Britain was at its height, the R.A.F. shot down 1,091 German planes-but they were meeting hundreds of planes...
...Manchu empire. The Chiangs could be pleased. They awaited Wendell Willkie's visit, remembering as they did on their own trip to the great Northwest that "he who has reason on his side need not speak in a loud voice." Workmen completed carving a 3,200-ft. runway from the solid rock of Chungking's mountains to accommodate Willkie's four-motored bomber. The Chiangs visited the garden house set aside for their guest. The Missimo saw that it was properly decorated with new silk draperies, American daisies, ancient paintings and priceless porcelain ware...