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...widow who has visited her husband's grave in the Pacific islands [like Red Cross Worker Virginia Matthews-TIME, April 1]. My husband, Major Lloyd E. Whitley, Army Air Corps, was killed on Iwo Jima on March...
Counsel Seth Whitley Richardson, 65, is a Republican. A mild-mannered man with a lucrative corporation practice in Washington, he served as an assistant attorney general in the Hoover administration. His boss then was William DeWitt Mitchell, whom he now succeeds as committee counsel. Unlike Mitchell, he will be paid for his services (at the rate of $750 a month...
Everything was right. The moon was bright, but ghostly and tricky with mist. Swarms of British attack planes thundered down on the night's target, peppered & salted it with bomb, cannon, machine gun. In the milky darkness half a mile away, big Whitley bombers dropped clusters of parachute troops, their faces and even their teeth blackened by burnt cork...
Feature of the traveling exhibition was "This Shrinking World," a series of smaller and smaller globes of the earth measured in terms of travel time over the past 100 years, from 150 days of circumnavigation in 1840 to eight days in 1940, from clipper to Clipper. Using the British Whitley bomber with its 700-mile range as typical of most medium bombers today, pictograph charts show that the raider theoretically can carry 6,250 lb. of bombs for a distance of 50 miles, but that it can carry only one 500-lb. bomb for a distance of 700 miles...
Britain gave more than it took. In bombing sweeps over the Continent, Wellington, Hampden, Whitley bombers dropped miniature earthquakes on Stuttgart, Stettin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and other towns. A British raid on Boulogne was so heavy that it shook and boomed across the Channel, could be heard plainly in British coastal towns. Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair dreamily heralded a British blitz "to prepare the way for advance of the Allied Armies into Germany...