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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Everybody's Race. What makes McCampbell's record doubly notable is the fact that it was not a single performance by a featured star. During the five short months that he was piling up his score, his wing man, Lieut. Roy Rushing, shot down 13. Meanwhile McCampbell's carrier group set a new Pacific group record: at least 295 Jap planes destroyed in the air (mostly by the fighters), 30 "probables," 423 destroyed on the ground. In that time no bomber in the McCampbell group was shot down by enemy aircraft: on protection his fighters scored...
...Third Republic's Senate Chamber (a gilded, rococo wing of the Luxembourg Palace) the new Consultative Assembly held its first session. Created in Algiers more than a year ago, the Assembly had been reorganized, its membership upped from 102 to 248. Resistance groups held 148 seats. Third Republic parliamentarians untainted by collaboration 60, overseas delegates...
Student Federalists would be distinguished, if for nothing else, by the fact that it is one of the few U.S. youth move ments of recent years that did not spring from left-wing yearnings or promptings...
Based on B-29 design, the Stratocruiser's two-decked, double fuselage, looking in cross section like a cigar atop a stogie, is fatter and longer than that of the B29, although the wing spread is the same. As an all-cargo Army plane, it will haul 35,000 pounds, which can be easily trundled in & out a letdown ramp in the rear. In a pinch, it can carry 172 soldiers. For postwar flying, Boeing expects airlines to use the top deck for passengers, who can sleep in roomy berths (see cut), the bottom either for a cocktail lounge...
Deadly Defense. With K8, a gunner needs relatively little training. He sets three dials, recording the altitude and speed of his own ship and the wing span of the target plane (after he recognizes the type), then looks through the sight itself -a circle of orange light with a dot in the center. Using a foot pedal to regulate the circle's size, he frames the target, from wing tip to wing tip, in the circle (see cut). The machine then instantaneously makes all the necessary computations; all the gunner has to do is press the trigger...