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Harry Truman sat on the weather deck of the U.S.S. Williamsburg and bared his white chest to the sun. It was his first trip away from Washington since last March, but it was not complete escape. Each morning, courier seaplanes skimmed into the water alongside the presidential, yacht in Chesapeake...
Lose a Million. With some of his cash, he decided to go into the aviation business. It was not a whim: he had faith in its money-making future. He formed the Viking Flying Boat Co. to build sport-model seaplanes. The depression wiped out the market for seaplanes, along...
McCain's carrier-group commanders and Vice Admiral Sir Philip ("Cossack") Vian, non-flying commander of the British flattops, sent their flyers off to swoop out of a blustery dawn onto the airfields around Tokyo. In the bad weather, the aviators had poor hunting. The Americans, on the southern...
Next day, LeMay relaxed somewhat. sending a smaller force (100 to 150 B-29s) to bomb the Kawanishi aircraft plant near Kobe, biggest producer of Jap seaplanes.
Seaplanes were then flying the oceans, but the North Atlantic was a route to be flown regularly only by veteran pilots. It was deserted by aircraft in the winter. Lord Lothian's whisper was more than the cautious enunciation of a secret. It indicated an awareness of how Billy...