2,000 U.S. PLANES BATTER FRANCE, SMASHING AIRFIELDS AND COAST; GERMANS BOLSTERING DEFENSES (4/29/44)

Microfilm-New York Times archives, Monterey Public Library | 4/29/44 | Drew Middleton, Frank L. Kluckhohn, Sidney Shalett

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[mware]

If you get the chance get the audio book of Eye of the Needle. Edward Woodward of Equalizer fame narrates it.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

And isn't it remarkable how much more interesting these reports become once we recognize a personal connection!

Indeed. I expect it to be even more so when we get to the point where my father's unit goes into action for the first time since the Buna campaign (when my Father was still training in California).

I got the same sense last Dec. and Jan. when we covered the time my uncle flew with the 8th Air Force. The mission on which he was shot down got lots of coverage due to the heavy losses they sustained. Then later I found the name of his crew's bombardier on casualty lists in the Times. First as a MIA and later as a POW. (Americus Gentile, from New York City.) That gave me a peculiar sensation. I have to admit I knew my uncle better than my father when I was growing up. My father died when I was five and I lived with my uncle off and on for the next 14 years.

[fso301]

Concerning the p11 article about soldiers being physically larger than they were in WWI, increased size also increases the probability of being hit.

I have often wondered if anyone has ever done a study of casualties based on physical stature?

[1010RD]

Or perhaps that old man simply does what is necessary. Amoral in the face of evil is what it used to be called.