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Boston College Coach Fred Maguire hadn't named his starting pitcher yet, but it will probably to Steve Stuka, who quarter-backed the Eagles last fall when Clasby got hurt. Clasby plays in the infield...
Like his boss, General Montgomery, he was full of toplofty contempt for the Germans. He conceded that some German airmen in the desert were good, but considered most of them "poor stuff . . . incredible hoots." He called the then celebrated Stuka dive bomber an "overrated crate"-which...
...away. No sooner had the four of us reached the shelter than bombs from 15 planes began exploding around us. Sizzling bomb fragments whizzed into the trench beside my right shoulder. About 30 more large, low-flying planes arrived and, just as Fowler was filming the dive of a Stuka, brownish parachutes flapped open no more than 200 feet above us and gliders began to steer toward the ground just in front of us. We looked at each other and knew that there was no escape...
Sicily is really formidable. It has a naval base at Messina which can take vessels up to heavy cruisers, and submarine bases at Palermo, Augusta, Syracuse. It has been a Stuka base since 1941, with great dive-bomber fields at Catania on the east and Comiso on the southeast. It now has between 15 and 20 well dispersed air establishments, all good, all heavily fortified...
Last week there was ample evidence that the U.S. services are working with might & main to get out faster dive-bombers, thus overcome the handicap of low speed (199 m.p.h.) which has made the Stuka a sitting duck for fighter craft and flak batteries...