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Evening star., 1943-06-27

run once week would try the heart
of any man, and if there was any in.
herent weakness that had not been dis
covered by the medicos in examining
them for admission it would show UP.
1t is up hill and down dale, for well
over mile, swinging by vines over deep
ravines, through a monkey fence" which
is series of cages over the top and
into which the man must go on the
run, then hand-over-h up a rope,
and by the same method for 40 feet
along horizontal line, and down line
at the other end. Then on his hands
and knees through a culvert up high
wall by means of cargo net and down
the other side in the same manner,
ending the course in a high hurdle.
On another day, there is boxing; an
ether wrestling; another day must be
spent in the gymnasium and then the
swimming pool where the men are taught
all means of saving themselves, including
how to get aboard ship at sea and how
to jump off in the event of abandoning
the vessel. Then, too, they are taught
how to get out Of plane cockpit, in the
event they crash into the water.
A contrivance has been developed, sim
liar to cockpit in which man is
strapped in the same manner he would
be If pilot. The cockpit is lowered into
the water and turned over He must
unstrap himself and get out in 2
minutes.
Evening star., 1943-06-27

1t is really tough course that these
young men go through. so intensive and
so violent that even an older man watch
ing the program may find himself breath
ing just a little faster from watching
them. And all of it is in the spirit of
competition for the men are divided
into IL groups for sports competitions,
each named after a famous plane and
each having its own pennant. Each week
the winning pennants are flown at a yard
arm on the campus, with the winners
getting few extra privileges for excel
ling during the week.
But do not believe there is man that
would give it up. talked to number of
those in the class which was about to
graduate and all expressed themselves as
pleased with what had been done for
them while there, and they were eager to
get out and into the next step. which is
another chance at the planes. For dur
ing their time at Chapel Hill there is
not even plane ride, much less any op-
Grafton.
Combat Flying.
Then on to Pensacola, on the Gulf
Coast of Florida they go, for the first
introduction to combat flying and more
navigation school as well as gunnery.
This is really the next biggest event in
the career of naval air cadet, for at
the end Of his tour of duty there, if he
Evening star., 1943-06-27

A bomber is one of the most connli-
Gated pieces of apparatus ever conceived
and put together by the hand of man.
Yet, to the pilot, it is the most responsive
sweetly handling piece of machinery
Imaginable. 7 was permitted, on recent
flight in Bit, to take the controls for
few minutes, with the pilot, of course.
standing by ready to take over at any
moment.
From the maze of instruments on the
complicated panel facing the two pilots.
was told to watch three only. The en-
gines were in tune, manifold pressure was
right. oil temperature was o. K. and the
pilot check had shown everything func-
tioning properly up there at 5000 feet,
The Bit Is most responsive to the slight
est movement of the wheel. Even slight
pull back on the wheel and she rises.
The slightest pressure on the wheel to
right or left and she turns. You might
have had ideas a fast speedboat is the
most responsive piece of machinery you
ever handled. A Bit is fully as respon-
sive and much faster.
Mary Ann and her more modern coun-
terparts fly through the air as gayly and
far more speedily than the man on the
trapeze. Two hundred and fifty miles an
hour is just breeze for the Bit.
Her armament, Of course, is military
secret. But tucked up there in the Plexi-
glass nose of the ship is enough fire
power to take care OF any enemy fighter
or group of enemy planes that may at
tempt head-on to stop the progress of
this majestic airplane. Ordinarily Bits
fly in formations of three planes, their
guns bristling at all angles. tossing so
much lead that the Japs and Na1 fighter
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Three Kfngfshers' formation Bay


continues to maintain his grade and In
terest, and they all do, he gets his COM
mission as ap ensign In the Naval Re-
serve and is designated naval aviator
which permits him to wear on his left
breast the distinctive gold wings of the
combat flyer.
He Is introduced to the intermediate
trainers, and the Catalina flying boats.
and 1t Is here, too, that he selects the
type OF plane which he expects to handle
during the current conflict, be it flying
boat. torpedo bomber, bomber or dive
bomber. He lives 1t seven days at a
stretch from the break of dawn until
the stroke Of midnight. The drone and
roar of motors hour after hour is always
In his ears, until 1t becomes second ma
ture
But there are other things than flying
that he gets while here. The instruction
In se1-preServation in the water is con-
tinued, and here, too, he receives in
struction in high altitude flying, but right
on the ground. Huge pressure tanks have
been provided, and he Is given a course
OF instruction under surgeons of the
Navy on the recognition of the symptoms
Of the lack of oxygen at high attitudes
and how and when to use oxygen appa-
ratus are instilled into him.
They are taken into the huge tanks
at sea level, and the intricate machinery
can "lift" them in a matter of minutes
to simulated thousands of feet. with the
accompanying freezing temperatures
which he will meet when he actually gets
to such attitudes in the planes. During
the periods that they are In the tanks
they are under the watchful eyes of doc
tors and hospital corpsmen, both inside
and outside. Delicate instruments tell
just what is happening, and every safe
guard Is thrown around the student to
protect his life and health while under
going this instruction.
Final Training.
But having gotten his wings" and the
coveted commission with the accom-
panying designation of a naval aviator,
the student. for he Is still a student de-
spite the fact that he has received his
commission, goes to the operational sta
ton at Jacksonville on the Atlantic
Coast Of Northern Florida. Here he goes
Evening star., 1943-06-27

ships cut aerial didoes all over the sky
but don't dare to come within range of
the Fortress.
Need No Escort.
Time after time, Fortresses have gone
out over NaH Europe unaccompanied
by fighter escort. Disdaining the usual
umbrella of fighter protection they have
sailed forth into the lair of Goering's
yellow-nosed fighter planes, have
brushed them of over Lorient and st.
Nazaire and have dropped their eggs
from 10000 feet. returning to bases in
Britain.
You get the impression, watching a
flight Of Bits, that nothing can knock
them out of the air. And the impression
is partially true. Nothing but many hits
by cannon fire can do the job. Repeat
edly they have limped home, an engine
shot away hydraulic gear torn out, con-
trolls damaged. unable to put their wheels
down, making belly landing and safe
one.
At Sebring, Fla, few In a formation
of IL Bits, at the great four engine
school where fledgling Bit pilots come
from the two-engine schools to take
over the bigger and faster Fortresses,
weighing more than a score of tons,
lot of airplane to take off and land. If
some of the pilots had kept their wings
little further apart when rising cur
rents Of air tossed even those big air.
planes around would have been hap
pier. But nothing happened. They train
good pilots there. Such men as Capt.
Treharne and Maj. Russell p Reeves are
counterparts in flying skill of the tanned
lanky Texan who commands the school.
Evening star., 1943-06-27

through period of intensive training,
which is the polishing of process before
he receives his orders to go out to one
OF the fighting units.
Operating from fields scattered along
the east coast of Florida, the field de-
pending upon the type of flying for
which he is to be trained, he lives with
planes and guns. He learns here to do
almost by second nature everything that
he would be expected to do when he is
in the air and sees a Zero bearing down
on him. The officers put him through a
course which would permit him to take
to the air in actual combat from the time
he reports to carrier or base in the
war zone. For while here he does every
thing that he would do there, except per-
haps get shot at by live ammunition.
At Jacksonville, as well as at Pensacola,
he receives his instruction not from men
with theory of aerial combat, but from
Evening star., 1943-06-27
Why the Flying Fortress Is the Finest Fighter World
Our Men Not Soft.

From a purely civilian point of view
there may be little to choose between the
BIZ and the B-24. Both four-engine
heavy bombers are good ships. Both the
Fortress and the Liberator have proven
their effectiveness over Europe and
Africa. Both can carry plenty of trou-
BILE, absorb lead and dish it out.
But in the air they're different. The
B-24 is good airplane, but in fight it
lacks the graceful, swallow-like lines of
the Bit. 1t has the same majesty, the
same look Of impregnability and the
same impression that here is an airplane
that will go long way toward Berlin,
blasting path of destruction as it goes.
But the Fortress Is different. It is no
disparagement of the B-24 to say that
where the "a is the flying freight car of
the air the IT is the graceful swan.
There Is so much difference in their
looks, from the esthetic angle.
Both have power, climbing ability, the
right to the upper attitudes where much
OF the heavy bombing and fighting of
this war is being carried on. Both have
tremendous fire power and tremendous
bomb carrying ability.
At the Controls.
An airplane (any airplane) is a highly
technical, tremendously complicated
piece of machinery. But the big bombers
are more complicated, by far, than the
speedy, comparatively light little fighter
planes, or even than the medium bomb
ers, such as the BIS and B-26, the
former the type which bombed Toxic
and the latter the type which did COM
plete job Of 100 per cent destruction on
the Japs in the Bismarck Sea-.
Evening star., 1943-06-27
BY Walter McCallurn.

shes the finest fighter airplane in
the world" Capt. Spencer Treharne
patted the sleek, camouflaged aluminium
skin of the big bomber. "She has the
fire power to dish it out and the speed
and armor to take it."
Few people think of the Bit, the Fly
ing Fortress of the upper air lanes, as
fighter airplane. They see the four
motored, sweetly streamlined ship fly
ing majestically overhead, motors roar
ing in unison, her big vertical fin stick
ing up like the dorsal of a fish, the
apotheosis of air power. Nearly five
thousand horses live in the engines of
Bit. She has the power to handle any
situation, in her engines and in the
quick firing guns which stick out like
porcupine quills all over her stream
lined periphery.
And the Bit, with all her tremendous
power for destruction, and her position
as the top $50 rated by the British
heavy bomber in the air arsenal of any
nation, is "the last of the small air.
planes" The quotes are from recent
speech by Gen. H. H. (Hap) Arnold,
commanding general, Army Air Forces.
There is no secret about the fact that
bigger, faster and better models of heavy
bombers of the Bit type, proven in
combat, with greater fire power and more
bomb-carrying capacity, are about to
come off production lines at the Boeing
factory. The new heavy bombers, so it
is reported in the Air Force, will be big
ger than the present improved model F
of the Flying Fortress, the heavily armed
and armored model which has fought so
we'll in combat areas all over the world.
They Can Take 1t.
Any one who has seen the movie "Air
Force" must absorb some of the spirit
of the men who fly the Fortresses and
their love for the big thunderbirds of
the air. In this picture you saw MARY
Ann" the Bit about which the film was
built, take beatings that would have
driven lesser planes to the ignominy of
death on the ground. You saw Mary
Ann almost pounded to bits, torn by
bullets, attacked furiously by swarms OF
enemy aircraft. And you saw Mary Ann
knock enemy ships out Of the sky in
spinning, blazing ruin and come back
for more.
How the BIZ Surpasses.
Majestic. Impregnable. Impervious
to enemy attack. All these adjectives
are used by the men Who fly the BIT.
They apply equally well to the B-24, the
other four-engined airplane used as
heavy bomber by the United States
Army Air Forces. Yet, among the
bomber crews you'll find the B-17 the
sweetheart of the Air Force, the air.
plane that goes out, accomplishes its
mission despite enemy opposition, and
comes back to fight again.
Evening star., 1943-06-27


hardened veteran officers who have ex-
perienced the sting of an enemy bullet,
the blast from his bombs and guns, and
who, for heroic conduct against the
enemy wear one, two and sometimes as
many as three stars on their service rib
bons.
Up to these the young cadets and stu
dents look as idols, but idolatry is not
practiced or preached. They are i'm
pressed with the fact that it is a grim
game, game with no rules like the
sports at pre-f1ight school. The object is
to win first; the method is not to be
questioned there or in any other place
as long as this conflict lasts. They are
instilled with the fact there, as at pre-
flight school that they are not in this
field of combat to win medals, but only
part of great effort to get the enemy
fiat on its back, ip which they are to be
important cogs.
Evening star., 1943-06-27

In the Air Forces Col. Carl B. McDan-
school at Sebring, is becoming legend,
for his flying ability. his knack of turn
ing out good Bit pilots, and his fatherly
attitude toward the men who tool the
Fortresses through the upper air.
Many times Col. Mcdaniel has helped
to a good landing BIT whose wheels
didn't function, or who got into trouble
up above. He has gone into the air him
self in smaller airplane, assayed the
possibility of safe landing by Bit
in trouble, and has brought it down
safely.
Well-Rounded Training.
The range of the Bit is extraordinary.
Part of the training schedule at Sebring
calls for 1,7oO mile cross country flight
by all pilots, through good weather and
bad, sometimes flying on instruments.
That kind of flying Instruments is
just routine part of the work. So are
three-engine and two-engine landings,
as they might have to be if enemy ack-
ack shot away one or more of the four
power plants that drive the plane
"If the boys get into real trouble in
the air" said Col. Mcdaniel, I'VE tell
them by radio either to fly until their
gasoline is exhausted, or to fly to
designated field where they can land
and where third echelon repairs can
be made" Third echelon work, in Army
Air Force language, means major re-
pairs. The landing spot happens to be
about 1000 miles from Sebring But
that is just toss for the Bit, which
has much greater flying range.
The Sebing School used to be train
ing school for Bit crews. 1t still is, in
way, although Col. Mcdaniel says 1t now
is transient training school for pilots.
But, of course, the flight crew, usually
commissioned officers, train along
with the pilots. A Bit, despite her han
diness in the air and her grace, still is
lot of airplane, and needs crew to
handle her
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team work. He says, rightly, that all ele-
ments Of heavy bomber crew must click
like highly geared football team to in
sure the success of the mission. "If they
don't they might as well stay home" he
says.
The two pilots. sitting up in the glass
nose. are the chauffeurs. The senior
pilot, of course, is the captain, with the
final word on everything. If the order
comes to abandon ship, he gives it. If
decisions Of vital importance to plane
and crew are made, he makes them after
consultation with the technicians under
his command.
Pilots Take Orders.
But on a bombing mission, the pilots
take orders. They take the airplane off
the ground, and by the way, Bit
leaves the ground at about 100 miles an
hour, lot Of speed in any contrivance.
Once In the air the navigator takes over.
telling the pilots the course to take to
bring them over the objective. Nearing
the spot where they are to lay their
deadly eggs the bombardier, away up in
Evening star., 1943-06-27

the peak of the nose, peering through
his bomsight, takes charge. Keep her
level and about S degrees right" he tells
the pilot by the interphone. Bombs .
away he says, as he pulls the levers
which drop the big bombs Then the di-
rection of the ship goes back to the
navigator, who sits under hooded lamp
pouring over his flight plan and his
charts.
Meanwhile, enemy aircraft may have
risen up in the stratosphere where the Z
Bits do their best work. to engage the :,
big bomber. Then all crew members turn
to the guns to repel attack The tail
gunner, sitting in the cramped quarters
at the rear of the ship, blasts the enemy
with twin machine guns. From the belly .,
turret, suspended below the belly of the T..
plane, pours deadly hail of fire. From
the top turret other guns chatter, while
from many positions in the nose machine :;
guns NOV down enemy planes attacking :
head-on, and the waist gunners, their :.
weapons protuding through open win
dows, add to the fire power of the air.
plane
That is what Treharne means when
he calls the Bit the finest fighter afr
plane in the world. You can sum it up
In one phrase: Fire power And you can
make it more concrete when you see
three of these big babies tooling their
way through the upper air, guns bristling
TO cover all avenues of fire. They stay in
formation to concentrate fire on attack
from any direction. It's part of their in
vulnerability.
The Fortress Grew.
The crew of the Fortress numbers nine.
Usually they're young men, tanned and .
Mt with plenty of air and airplane savvy.
They have rowing eyes and the swivel.
neck's you'll find in many air men, from,
looking for enemy pursuit. %.
They have an esprit, from captain
down, an affection for their ship, that
goes beyond mere words. There are the,
pilot and co-pilot, the navigator, bomba- r,
dier, all specialists in highly technical
lines. There are the waist, ball turreti'
and top .turret gunners, the radio opera
tor and the flight engineer. All of them
except the pilots take over guns when
enemy aircraft attack. And if the pilots
happen to catch a bullet others in the
ship are equipped to take over and bring.
her home safely. =,
We flew many miles out to sea on leg
OF the homeward flight from Florida
which carried us to 10000 feet to get over =
high clouds, over territory which year
ago was pretty thick with submarines:
We felt no apprehension up there over a.,
lot of water many miles from land. Those
big engines, turning over at half speed
and still driving the airplane more,
than 200 miles an hour create feeling
of confidence
Some of us went to sleep. The big
bomber is an airplane that seems so in
capable of any harm, so like Pullman
car, you can get no sensation of speed
or height. And this, says the Air Force.
is the last Of the small planes. The
bigger ones to come will have to be good
to beat the one which built the original
reputation. "'
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Evening star., 1943-06-27

He must learn to be a tumbler like
those you pay money to see in the circus
and is taught all of the fine arts of self
defense against the enemy with knife or
gun at close hand. When he quits this
school he has been trained in all of the
fine arts of quickly disarming, manning
and killing his adversary.
During all of this intensive training
each man Is under the watchful eye of an
officer, who watches for any weakening
points which mark him as unfit to go
out in combat. For instance, during the
boxing, If he covers up too much in the
ring and doesn't push the fight to his
adversary he Is not considered good
enough fighting material to go out
against the enemy and he is finished in
so far as becoming an aerial fighting of
ficer is concerned.
Our Men Not Soft.
There has been much talk all over the
country about the softness of American
youth, but this is not borne out by a
study of this cross section which may be
found at the prefiight school. Strangely
enough, only about 3 per cent wash
out" during this period. On the other
hand they are the cream of the crop, as
many are eliminated during the earlier
cadet stages before they reach prefight,
largely because of the fact that they do
not show that they have inherent ability
for flying.
Evening star., 1943-06-27

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The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-10-11
Draft Bill
 Faces Fight

washington, Oct. 1l-tUp)-Leg- iglation to tighten. occupattonal draft deEerments -passed by the Senate as c substitute for the bill to prohibit the father draft--today faces the possibility of many chang es in the House Military Affairs Committee.
 Ranking members of the com mittee will meet to plan public hearings which open tomorrow.
 The following suggestions will be paced before today's informal con- ference:
 i. That the EIouse-approved Kil- day bilI, deferring fathers until all single and childlcss married men have been inducted. be made an amendment. The House passed the Kiday bill carly this year but the Senate pigeonholed 1t.
 q. That sections of the bill del- egating authority specifically to the selective service director pc strengthened.
 3. That the section increasing al- lowances to children of serviceinen be deleted. A separate bill increas- ina allowances is due to come pe- for tlae House Wednesday.
 4. That the section providing Q ureinduction physical examination for reRistrants ne eliminated on the round that the army considers 1t to difficult to administer"
 s. That the section authorizing the president to appoint a coIn- nitfee. including army and navy representatives, to examine present physical standards for admission to the services. also be eliminated.