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Lieut. Barmann of the Luftwaffe became the hero of the biggest air-whopper of the war. Said Radio Berlin: he had shot down eleven planes in one day on the Russian front, run his total score...
...artist-in-khaki hiked up and down the front lines in Tunisia, and finally sent home a whopper of a story with typewriter instead of pen and ink. Another soldier made 10 action flights out of Chungking and cracked up on his eleventh. One his hospital bed he received his reward: promotion from sergeant to staff sergeant...
...artist-in-khaki hiked up and down the front lines in Tunisia, and finally sent home a whopper of a story with typewriter instead of pen and ink. Another soldier made 10 action flights out of Chungking and cracked up on his eleventh. On his hospital bed he received his reward: promotion from sergeant to staff sergeant...
That was a whopper. The U.S. Fleet is not just something somebody leaves in the pocket of another pair of pants. The U.S. was a troubled nation last week, but at least part of its trouble came because it felt like a man who has mislaid a bass drum in a taxicab. The 17 battleships, seven aircraft carriers, 37 cruisers, 172 destroyers, 113 submarines and some 1,100 smaller vessels that made up the Fleet on Dec. 7 made a sizeable total to place when you were trying to remember exactly where you had been the night before...
Equally satisfied are Army & Navy-not merely because Vultee is in but above all because Rube Fleet is out. Although Fleet's production record surprised them and his whopper planes are the champs of their class, he has long been persona non grata in Washington. Too often his sharp tongue has raked the Administration and accused it of bungling the defense program. Too often, too, have Government buyers left Rube Fleet's San Diego office feeling his prices were more than a little high...