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Show Birth of a Bombardier Would you personally like to bomb Berlin and Tokyo? From towns, cities, farms, factories and colleges thousands of American youths are answering yes and swarming into the worlds larg- est bombardier college at Midland, Texas, to learn the technique. Scientifically selected to operate the secret, deadly U. S. bomb-sigh- t, bombardier cadets are trained in 12 weeks to be the most dangerous men in the world. Where they are going is a military secret, but a thousand bombardiers destroyed Cologne in a single night! And Uncle Sams air force is training at least 25,000 bombardiers! The tyro bombardier becomes familiar with his thrilling job ed AT-1-1 trainwith the - bi-mot- or ing bomber. He watches mechanics who keep em flying. At the bomb -- loading dump, brawny ordnance men carry the kind of bright blue used for practice. Each cadet drops as many as two hundred bombs during training the equivalent of forty real raids. . A scale model of 100-pound- Tokyos waterfront industrial section provides a realistic target for bombardment, and re- ally gives the boys something to shoot at. Physical fitness is the prime These pictures tell how cadets requisite for cadets. Here they use from all corners of the U. S. be- practice bombs for bombardier build-up- s come lords of the bombsight. . Here to attend the International Student assembly in Washington, D. C., are Vladimir Pchelintsev, a Russian lieutenant, and Miss Liudmila Pavlichenko. The lieutenant Italian prisoners captured on the El Alamein front while Marshal is credited with killing 152 Nazis Erwin Rommel was driving towards Alexandria, only 80 miles from with 154 bullets while a sniper on the El Alamein, sample one of the Four Freedoms Freedom From Want. Russian front. The young lady, a They are opening cans of American corned (willy) beef shortly after their Russ guerrilla fighter and veteran of arrival in camp behind the lines. Meats, biscuits and water are issued Sevastopol, personally killed 109 Nazis. prisoners immediately. In ground school, a group watches an instructor using a model V. S. bomber and models of Japanese warships to illustrate a point. battleJ. W. Fletcher, mayor of Unalas-kMrs. Henry Wallace, sponsor at the launching of the 45,000-to- n shown while on a visit to New superbottle from Kennedy, Captain receives the christening ship, Iowa, battle-wagoholds a shell from a Jap gun of the York, The big launching intendent of the Brooklyn navy yards. Harthe greatest bulwark of democracy afloat, was made seven picked up after raid on Dutch machine-gunne- d how the told He bor. of a main have Japs battery months ahead of schedule. The Iowa will the streets and docks. a, n, 16-in- guns. Brazil Enters War Took Part in Dieppe Commando Raid of a Ready for bigger things, a cadet sits in the shark-nos- e bomber, awaiting the loading of the bomb bay by ordnance men. b raid on This group of Commandos have just returned from the great Amer-a- n and United Kmgdoni of English, ieppe and are part of the force channel. Rangers that crossed the English f J' A ct of the raid was to test German defenses minor damage town a Commando with his trouser leg torn off, with only the leg inside. 1 4 Getulio Vargas of Brazil, president of the first South American nation to enter the war. War was declared on Germany and Italy fol- lowing the sinking ships by the Axis, 600 lives. Brazils ed at about 100,000 of five Brazilian with the loss of army is estimatmen with 300,000 active reservists. It has a small but very serviceable navy.- - ricochet, rocket-like- , into the pyramid-shape- d structure. B-1- 8 |