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...soldiers, "Sad Sack" is the funniest little lug who ever got a typhus shot or tried to goldbrick out of a duty. Sad Sack, lugubrious comic-strip creation of onetime Disney Animator Sergeant George Baker, leads a life of misadventure in the Army's newspaper Yank. Soldier readers think Sad Sack is comical because he is so forlorn...
...Back. Unlike other flyers, reconnaissance pilots usually fly unarmed-and they must return from their missions. They generally take their photographs at very high altitudes (over 30,000 ft.). Both the U.S. and Royal Air Forces now assign their best planes for reconnaissance. The U.S. favorite is a stripped-down P-38, with five cameras in the nose instead of guns. The Flying Fortress, with eleven cameras, is also used, on less hazardous missions. The British use Mosquitoes and Spitfires. Military needs have fathered many innovations, such as flash bombs for night photography, a new camera with a strip...
Until the P-63 is formally introduced to the U.S. public, the Army's newest fighter remains the P-61 (Black Widow), twin-engined Northrop night fighter. On Jan. 14 the Black Widow had the peculiar distinction of first seeing the light of publication in a comic strip, NEA Service's Wash Tubbs. Artist Leslie Turner had seen the plane for months, flitting around his home at Orlando...
...drew it in because: 1) he thought it would be announced before his strip appeared; 2) no other plane he knew of exactly fitted the needs of his continuity. Biggest fighter plane yet, the Black Widow is heavily armed, turns up speeds in the 400-m.p.h. class with two Pratt & Whitney engines, has a rear gun position...
A.A.C.S. men installed their equipment within half a mile of Jap guns. They were visited by as many as ten air raids a day. A bomb made a direct hit on the sick bay. But eight days after the landing strip had been taken, a complete A.A.C.S. station was open for business, sending a strong, clear signal into Guadalcanal. The new Allied airdrome...