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...contempt in which all good war pilots are supposed to hold ground defenses, however strong, the first British bombers slanted down through a hole in the cloud layer one night and, crossing Berlin from northwest to south east, dropped high explosives and incendiaries amid an angry inferno of bursting shrapnel and "flaming onions." The raiders hit seven widely separated districts of Greater Berlin, including Gorlitzer Railroad Station in the southeastern industrial and freighting section. Even as civilians were dying that night in London, so died ten Berlin civilians, with 28 injured, by official German counts. On succeeding nights more British...
Heroes. Stories of individual exploits last week tended to support the entire R. A. F.'s record of desperate heroism. On the day fighting in the Low Countries began, Australian Pilot "Cobber" Kane returned to his unit with shrapnel wounds in his hands. "Turned out nice again, hasn't it?" said he to his adjutant, then took his machine into action. During the week he accounted for ten German planes...
...factly: "The Norway fiasco has taken the heart out of the British people"; added that in the bombing raids over Great Britain civilians around the Thames estuary had ventured out of their bombproof shelters into the vicinity of military objectives and had been injured by their own shells and shrapnel falling on them; signed off with his usual "This is E. D. Ward IN Berlin...
Engaged (Really). New Zealander Edgar James ("Cobber") Kain, 22, Great Britain's first World War II Ace (five Nazi kills, a possible sixth), convalescing from 20 shrapnel wounds; and his best girl Joyce Phillips, repertory actress, who doesn't believe in getting married until the war is over (TIME, April 15); after a 90-mile dash from Peterborough, where she is playing in The Importance of Being Earnest, to Birmingham to buy an engagement ring...
...Edgar James ("Cobber") Kain, 22, was pronounced R. A. F.'s undisputed Ace No. 1 (see opposite page), officially credited with five Nazi kills (and a possible sixth) for which he received the D. F. C. last fortnight. His arrival in England on leave, to recuperate from 20 shrapnel wounds in left leg and hand, was made the occasion for a burst of unwonted official publicity. The fact that Officer Kain was born in New Zealand, where "Cobber" means "Pal," is a big help to recruiting officers...