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Boeing News — June 1943, Vol. XIII, No. 6 —

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Main Articles
Hitler’s Licked, Huh?
Tropical Islands Aren’t So Hot! — Helen Call
Undercover Pilots
Test Flight of the XB-Link
Snapshots in Steel
Sewing Circle
7 Steps to Winning
Atlantic Shuttle
Fortress vs. Fortress

Boeing Factory Workers
Adams, Douglas
Anderson, Jennie
Anderson, Lorraine
Anderson, Theodore
Anglin, Carl
Archer, Ronald
Barkwill, Robert
Barlow, Leonard
Barton, Jack
Bellam, Joseph
Bogstad, P. L.
Boyer, Ada
Campbell, George
Collins, Frederick
Congdon, A. L.
Couture, Raymond
Dinesen, Marius
Ferrari, Otto
Fierling, Joe
Fisher, Glenn
Frohning, Louis
Gamlem, Virgil
Graham, Joe
Gray, Bob
Hackett, William
Harrison, Sarah
Hoyem, Isaac
Jardine, Agnes
Jardine, Henry
Jardine, William
Joy, Don
Khvorff, Victor
Kristerson, J. P.
Liberty, Ralph
MacDonald, Ray
Madden, Kenneth
McCarthy, Tim
McDonald, Eugene
McWilliams, Agnes
Medley, Helen
Medley, John
Merrill, Creighton
Moss, Alfreda
Novak, Henry
Ojala, Bill
Pirogoff, Kirik
Rantz, Joe
Rasmussen, Warren
Richardson, Jack
Ruckhaber, E. L.
Satterlee, Milton
Savage, Oscar
Schmidt, A. F.
Schmitt, George
Scully, Roy
Sexton, J. J.
Sherman, John
Sherman, J. R.
Snider, Orval
Snow, Ted
Snyder, Bernard
Spirk, George
Stearns, R. H.
Stout, James
Taylor, Frank
Ward, H. R.
White, J. D.
White, Jack
Wicknick, William

June 1943          Vol. XIII No. 6          16 Pages scanned

Cover: National Prize Winner
The Boeing Clipper, taken by Boeing News photographer Gordon Williams (now Ensign Williams of Coast Guard public relations), received the gold medal award at the New York Art Director’s Show as the best black and white advertising photo appearing in national magazines. The Clipper picture was used in a Boeing ad.

Inside Articles: …

Let’s Go on a Spending Spree

Hitler’s Licked, Huh?
The crew of the famous Fortress “Jack the Ripper” visit Boeing factory. (Sarah Harrison, Bob Gray, George Campbell with Andrew Markle, William Crumm, Robert Kleyla, Karl Masters, Rufus Youngblood and Peter DeBoy)

Tropical Islands Aren’t So Hot!
Here is the story of nine men, listed as missing for 66 days when their B-17 went down in the Pacific, as told by the Fortress’ navigator, Lieut. Robert Dorwart of Seattle, when he visited the Boeing plant. The tale begins where most of the other war stories end, with the fliers reaching an island.
By Helen Call
Flying Fortress “Lovin’ Dove” crew pose with Lt. Gen. Millard F. Harmon; crew members: Jim Hunt, Don Martin, Ted Edwards, William Nichols, Bob Turnbull, Balfour Gibson, Robert Dorwart, Ernest Ruiz, Thomas Classen

Undercover Pilots
Training in a Link Trainer
(Pilot Elliott Merrill with Harry E. Cramer)

Test Flight of the XB-Link
By The Boeing News Test Pilot

Snapshots in Steel
Large steel template production
(Kirik Pirogoff, Tim McCarthy, Ray MacDonald, Robert Barkwill, Glenn Jones, Roy Scully, Eugene McDonald, Virgil Gamlem, John McMaster, Milton Satterlee, Jennie Anderson, Leonard Barlow, Lorraine Anderson and Ralph Liberty)

Sewing Circle
The women making the coverings for elevators, ailerons and rudders
(Agnes Jardine, Ada Boyer, Helen Medley, Alfreda Moss, Agnes McWilliams, J. D. White, Jack White, Jack Barton, Kate Warner, Ada Boyer, John Medley, A. F. Schmidt, Joe Rantz)

7 Steps to Winning – Suggestions

Atlantic Shuttle
While much of the war’s spotlight is cast upon the Boeing Flying Fortress, another Boeing plane – the mighty Clipper – is playing a vital role in Allied war strategy, too. Here is the story of the Boeing Clippers and job they are doing.

Pan American Airways; The president cutting cake aboard Clipper with Adm. Leahy, Hopkins, Lieut. Cone

Service Awards to June 10
(George Schmitt, Frederick Collins, Marius Dinesen, Otto Ferrari, Douglas Adams, Victor Khvorff, Joseph Bellam, J. P. Kristerson, J. J. Sexton, Jr., William Hackett, Orval Snider, Carl Anglin, Glenn Fisher, H. R. Ward, James Stout, E. L. Ruckhaber, Don Joy, R. H. Stearns, George Spirk, Louis Frohning, A. L. Congdon, Creighton Merrill, J. R. Sherman, P. L. Bogstad, Jack Richardson, Bernard Snyder, Isaac Hoyem, Joe Fierling, Bill Ojala, Warren Rasmussen, Oscar Savage, Frank Taylor, Theodore Anderson, Henry Novak, William Wicknick, John Sherman, Ronald Archer, and Kenneth Madden)

Fortress vs. Fortress
The B-17 against Axis strongholds; Wilhelmshaven, Lille, Emden, Kiel, Lorient, Bordeaux, St. Nazaire, Civitavecchia, Leghorn and Naples