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When the second Jap wave came over, bomb fragments wounded a pilot and two mechanics in a trench flanking the runway. An A.V.G. doctor lugged the pilot to a jeep and drove it across the field to a hospital, with Jap bullets chasing him in the dust like puffs from his own exhaust pipe. One of the mechanics died. In an ambulance plane the pilot and the other mechanic were carried over the mountains to Calcutta...
...Natal land base (at Paramarim) Pan Am is building two runways, each a mile long; a radio station; underground gas tanks; a warehouse, loading sheds, etc. Right next to this field, and probably later to be included in it, is another one built by Air France for its Paris-Buenos Aires run. From it Savoia-Marchettis of the Italian Lati line this week still took off for Rome. A hulking Frenchman named Reynaud, in charge of this field, likes to remember how the big Air France boats used to go through every few days with gifts for him, fresh vegetables...
...hour out of Natal over the Atlantic, a U.S. pilot in the first group ferrying planes to the British at Bathurst noticed a cylinder "missing." He was able to return to Natal and land, though beacon and runway lights were out, the field deserted. Mechanics discovered one very loose spark plug, several wiggly ignition wires. Since then airport lights shine all night and pilots stand two-hour watches over their planes...
...Recife, on Brazil's eastern bulge, A.D.P. took over another Air France field, flanked by an extremely powerful Lati radio station. Lati planes still use this field too, almost grazing the heads of A.D.P. workmen. To enlarge the runway from 800 to 1,550 meters, A.D.P. is moving by hand labor 120,000 cubic meters of soil, cutting and filling spots often 20 feet off-grade. But Superintendent Fred Wohn had trouble getting enough of the necessary small, hand-pushed dump trucks. A German contractor had some; when Wohn tried to rent them for the A.D.P. project, he flatly...
Target is a full, authentic, minute record of an R.A.F. bombing raid on Germany-from the telltale packet of negatives parachuted to English earth by a reconnaissance plane to the last homing bomber groaning down onto the flare-lit runway in the dirty dawn. Its actors are those happy few to whom Britain and the democracies owe so much: the members of the R.A.F. There is not a ham in the cast...