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...Shangri-La. One afternoon at the end of March, 16 B-25s were spaced trimly over the aircraft carrier Hornet's flight deck. Off on either side steamed cruisers and destroyers. The next morning, Doolittle told them officially what the mission was, gave them choice of city: Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kobe, Magoya. They were to land at small Chinese airfields, refuel and meet at Chungking. It would be single-file, hit-&-run, each crew on its own. "If we all get to Chungking, I'll throw the biggest goddamn party you ever...
...Navy principle "Learn by Doing" and you get some idea of what may be in store for us "up and coming" disbursing, supply, administrative, management, statistical, procurement, negotiating, inspecting, beer-drinking officers in the "interim." But let's not give up all hope, Maybe we'll all go to Shangri-La to see how the monastery keeps its books, with Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt...
...only been here nine days as of today, but we might as well have been transported to Shangri-la for the first few of those nine days, it has been so amazing. Musters divided by 10 and then redivided to give us our present number, no daily room inspection, but instead, a student club, more shore leave, generally less iron-clad discipline...BUT, more work and still more...
...ingenuity of the Network had been taxed by harder problems, so now all the calls are made from a place known as Shangri-La. Once it was in Winthrop House, and once in Leverett, but it seems to get around without much trouble, baffling even members of the Network...
...Shangri-La, known also as studio's C.D. and E. has solved the problems for the present, and keeps the Network technicians busy. Compared with the problem of preventing wave radiation and tangling with the FCC, this difficulty was a snap...