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...were hedgehopping, coming directly out of the moonlight. Every Japanese machine gunner seemed to get the bead on our bombing run as we skimmed low. The tracers' red, blazing prongs of light flashed by our windows. I was up in the nose with the squadron bombardier, Lieut. George Stout, and it seemed as if we were darting through a corridor of flaming sheaves...
Japanese battery suddenly blinked out -whether from prudence or from our fire we could not tell. Stout had shifted the nose gun to the side panel. Empty cartridge cases were flying about like corn in a popper. "This is the most fun I get out of a raid," Stout yelled...
Donald Nelson's War Production Board, rapidly growing biceps, triceps and stout pectoral muscles, got two important new additions to the staff last week. Both were brought in by Vice Chairman Charles Edward Wilson, to help him exercise his new powers over production scheduling. Both were top-flight production men, expert, headstrong and tough...
...While equipping these men and the Army on its own shores, the U.S. has sent stout help to the British in Egypt (more than 1,000 planes, "many hundreds" of tanks, 20,000 trucks). It has increased Lend-Lease assistance to all allies to the rate of $10,000,000,000 a year. With Great Britain, it has shipped to Russia this year, over the northern route alone, more than 3,000 planes, 4,000 tanks, 30,000 trucks-though not all arrived...
...shook his head slightly, as if to say, "What the heck, I can't be that good." Everybody expected him to break down emotionally when he was called upon for a speech. But George Norris surprised them. His eyes were a little watery but his voice was stout...