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...landmarks like the Duwamish and San Diego's harbor outline were perfect reference points for a bombing run. They canceled out much of the safety gained by all the elaborate concealment. What was left, the engineers hoped, was enough to confuse a bombardier for a few critical seconds, spoil his aim. If it had done that, camouflage would have been cheap at any price...
...perverse and wanton amateurs, too. They stole, killed, crudely hacked off what they wanted and got away, leaving most of the meat to spoil. Some were caught. But for rustlers so far, there were no necktie parties...
WAVE TO LAST THREE MORE DAYS; HUMIDITY TO REMAIN TOO; THUNDERSTORMS TO SPOIL PICNICS...
Spare the Rods. In Salem, Mass., a young mother asked to check her sleeping baby and carriage in a railway baggage car, confided, "I hate to spoil him so young by letting him ride in a Pullman." A Summer's Tail. In Atlanta, a police man held up traffic for what he thought was a funeral procession, let 18 cars pass, all driven by women, then found they were all tailing a heavily loaded meat truck...
What the Navy has learned about the Kamikaze Corps' make-up and organization is largely negative, but it is enough to spoil some splendid tales...