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Vol. II No. 6 ……. Cover: Cleaning a Liberator’s top turrent guns ……. Inside Articles: ……. Wright Field and the American Future ( Wright Field has supervised the spending of some fifty billion dollars to build American airpower, with results our enemies now know ) ….. Is It Dangerous? ( Flying internationally with ATC is today just a casual adventure for thousands and Fred B. Barton tells you how to meet it ) ….. African Graveyard ( Of all the ruins in Africa, the most useful to us now are the piles of wrecked planes which are down but by no means out ) ….. No Medals For Weather Recco ( Lieutenant Walter Petravage tells you about one of the most difficult jobs a Liberator crew can do weather recco in the Pacific ) ….. Great Bombers to Guard the Peace ( Burnet Hershey describes the international air force we already have, and explains some plans discussed at Dumbarton Oaks ) ….. Training the Foreign Legions ( Thousands of youths from South America, Asia, and Europe have come to America to learn air mastery in Vultee Valiants ) ….. Fire Fighting ( Fire Hazards at bases around the world cannot be banished but here is an example of their highly effective control ) ….. Not A Sparrow Falls ( Every one of our Air Forces has in its Service Command a long arm that reaches out to any plane in trouble ) ….. Painting Speeds Production ( The attractive colors that deck machines and walls in Consolidated Vultee Plants have a sound engineering reason ) ….. Pickled Magnesium ( Research has been busy on the job of discovering ways to extend the usefulness of one of our lightest available metals ) ….. Desert Base for Flying Boats ( How the Australians, when they feared Japanese invasion, built a secret base to keep the gallant Catalinas flying ) ….. Interlude, B-24 ( Master Sergeant Jukes Archer tells how a Jolly Rogers Liberator crew in the South Pacific talks and thinks )