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November 1943 Vol. 26 No. 11 60 Pages
The Front Cover:
The new P-51 Mustang, high altitude fighter with the Packard-built Rolls Royce engine, is pictured on this month’s front cover. Test pilots at Wright Field are enthusiastic over the combat possibilities of the new 51. They particularly praise its speed at high altitudes and ease of handling.
An article describing the development of the P-51 appears in the Technique department on Page 31. Tech. Sgt. Roger Coster, staff photographer, took the cover photo at an east coast port of embarkation.
Contents in Issue:
November Brief
Cross Country
Reprint of the Month
Salesmanship
(Sgt. Robert M. Price)
A Different World
(Wing Commander John Barnes)
Read and Remember
Missing Parachutes
Last Flight
Sahib Snob
Caterpillars
(Lieut. Col. Falk Harmel, Lieut. Harold R. Harris)
Motor Transport
(Capt. A. L. Zachry)
Hotel De Gink For Women
(Mrs. Warner B. Gates)
From the Staging Area
From Red to Blue
AAF Song Book
Songs Away
(Capt. John Hunter Pitts)
No Box Tops
(John N. Dunham)
Join the Party
Navigation Instructor’s School
The Meaning of Air Discipline in Bombardment
By Brig. Gen. Frank A. Armstrong, Jr.
‘Poisonality’
Report on a Straggler, by a B-17 Pilot
(Second Lieut. William J. Holloway, Sergeant McCurdy, Tech. Sgt. William A. Glenn, Second Lieut. Edward C. Piech, Second Lieut. Roy H. Peterson, Sgt. Daniel J. Reeder, Sgt. Angelo J. Riccardi, Tech. Sgt. William A. Harvey, and Staff Sgt. Vert P. Long)
By First Lieut. James J. Maginnis
Our Attack on the Ploesti Refineries
(Maj. Gen. Lewis Brereton)
Planning The Mission
(Col. Jack Wood)
By Col. J. E. Smart
*. . . Conspicuous Gallantry*
(Col. Leon W. Johnson, Col. John R. Kane)
Over The Target
(Col. John R. (Killer) Kane, Tech. Sgt. Fred Leard, Sergeant Weckessler, Lieut. R. B. Hubbard, Lieut. Royden LeBrecht, Lieut. Norman Whalen, Major Selvey)
By Capt. John S. Young
“Mission Accomplished”
Prepare For Inspection
Timely Advice from the Air Inspector
Aid for Alerted Units
Camera Acrobatics
Destruction by Parachute in the South Pacific
Bombs for Paramushiru
How our Aleutian-based bombers drew first blood against the Jap stronghold on the northern approach to Tokyo.
(Maj. Robert E. Speer, Major Gash, Lieut. Jerome J. Jones, Lieut. James R. Pottenger, Lieut. Robert Kammerer, Lieut. Robert Lockwood, Capt. Irvin L. Wadlington, Capt. Harrell R. Hoffman, Lieut. Leon A. Smith, Lieut. Merle E. Arthur, Staff Sgt. Walter Succov, Sgt. David L. Carter, Staff Sgt. Ira Edwards, Staff Sgt. A. Dumas, Staff Sgt. William C. Niehaus)
By Majors Louis C. Blau and Frank T. Gash, Illustrated By Capt. Raymond Creekmore
Action over Paramushiru with our B-24s
How His Last Match Saved a Crash Victim
(Lieut. Oscar Cook, Maj. Kenneth Northermar)
By First Lieut. David W. Smallwood, As Told to Capt. Allen C. Rankin, Jr.
Gas Warfare
OCS Australia
Sweating out the First OCS Class in Australia
By Lieut. W. F. Houha, Communications Officer with an Attack Group, Illustrated by James T. Rawls
Results of a Florida Life Raft Test
Some conclusions reached after eight officers and men spent six days and nights on the Gulf testing raft equipment.
(Maj. George IF. Holt, Maj. M. W. Boynton, Capt. George H. Waltz)
Operation of the New AAF Training Command
Our training operations following consolidation of the Flying Training and Technical Training Commands.
(General Yount, Brig. Gen. William W. Welsh, Col. John P. McConnell) Maj. Gen. Ralph Cousins, Maj. Gen. Gerald C. Brant, Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Hanley, Maj. Gen. John F. Curry, Maj. Gen. Frederick L. Martin, Maj. Gen. J. E. Fickel)
Organization Army Air Forces Training Command
The New Mustang P-51
(Edgar Schmued, Edward Horkey)
Waller Gunnery Trainer
Trailer Made from Standard Prop Dolly
Maj. John S. Loomis, CO, 91st Sub-Depot
Training During Combat
(Lieutenant G. K. Rhodes, Captain Joseph F. Perrin and Tech. Sgt. Herbert W. Eckhardt)
By Lieut. William Cook, Northwest African Strategic Air Force
Transparent Celestial Sphere
(Lieut. Col. J. E. Davis)
Tie-down System
(Col. Harry C. Wisehart, Maj. Harry L. Stebbins)
New Bearing Packer
(Tech. Sgt. Jack Baity)
Always in Place
(Lieut. Col. R. S. Smilie, CO, 59th Sub-Depot)
Roll of Honor
A Monthly Record of Decorations Awarded to Personnel of the Army Air Force
Women’s Army Corps
By Lieut. William T. Lent
Notes on the Aircraft Warning Service
Dead Planes Can Talk
How our engineers give all articles of captured enemy equipment a third-degree examination—and what they learn.
(Lieut. Col. John M. Hayward, Brig. Gen. Victor H. Strahm, Capt. Selby M. Frank)
By Capt. Robert V. Quelich
What We Learn from Captured Enemy Equipment
What’s wrong with this picture?
(Pfc. William Ramsey (left), Pfc. George Kirkendall and Pfc. Edward W. Kerscher)
How to Speak Eskimo in One Lesson
‘Courage Is Not Enough’
A ‘Hot Pilot’ Who Threw Away the Book
By First Lieut. Peter J. Packer, Flight Control Command
Life on the “Banana Run” to the Canal Zone
(Capt. Bill Betts, Lieut. Richard Wagner,
By Sgt. James Winchester, Illustrated By Lieut. William T. Lent,
Training Aids Synthetic Devices
Map Projection Models
Dead Reckoning Computer Mockup
Juke Box Goes to War
‘Expanded’ Computing Sight
Frostbite
The Wail of the Bombardier
By Lieut. Chester Turbak, 24th Antisubmarine Squadron
Physically Fit . . .
How About You?
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