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By all AIR F( )RCl-: ()\"t'rsc;/s Staff Correspondent " She made her first appear~.mce in l t.rlv. She \\'as the first plane in at Dole, at Sistcrou, at florence-and where she w.i-u't the first she \\ent in right behind the fighter-bombers who \\TIT ronte-bla,ting for the inf.mtrv. Slics just a lumbering C--t7, but to the medicos and the wounded \\'110 w.ut for her wherever there's act iou, she's the most wunclcrfnl airt-r.rf t in the "odd. They call her the 'Blood Plane'. . The Blood Plane carries whole blood, not plasma. Blood consists of fluid and cellular clements. \\ 'hen a donor gil es blood In t lic State,. cell, arc rcruovcd and rcm.uu nu; f1111d. which is pLt,nla. i, fr()/en .md dried, ThIS dried pLt,nu keep' indefinitely without refrigeration, c.m be c.uricd cvcrvwhcrc and gill'n to a m.ui iumudi.rtclv after he is injured. But when a man h~IS a severe wound, or a bad hemorrhage or is h.ullv
Rendezvous [Cont iuuccl from P:lge '») cedure for relea,ing the ho.rt . it is stated that the bo.it IS rele:lsed ,0 that it will alight d()\nl\l';I1c1 from the survivors and that they mav drift towards it. Almost an\' boat. p.ut icul.nlv O1IC of the Iiull design shown in the pictun, will drift, C ven in a hght brccz«, f:Jst el10ngh so that c vcn a powerful. naked survivcn would find It difficult if not impossible to overtake the drifting (Taft, The j ;0 yard buoyant lines JIIay be of ,ome help but t hcv also will clnft with the boat .mcl would pn-scut rather a q u c.... 'ion an d nTl,'i/{Tr calumn on page :::L-Ed. That Man PCIT lrlitor: I accept vour invit at ion on thc hack cover d the October i-su« of .\1 H I'OHU to let \Ill I folks hear from Inc, . \:ext lchrunrv ~ -:-th \\ ill he the ~ ;th .uuuvrrsarv of m:n/s ,on'plcst of the str.rtosphcrc. at \\'hieh time tlu wr itcr \\':IS the fir.st man in :1 Il\'ing machine to explore the possibilities of Armv \ir lorc« m ilit.rrv opcr.it iou-, in or above t hc
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~J 1 AIR FOftCES * OCTOBER 1944
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Rendezvous Who Is He? Dear Editor:
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[us: ,dlat is tIle AAI'I'DC~ It is
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oads and bridges and military imtal
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Here's how controllers direct the p
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sengcr and courier service in areas
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GET WISE Here are a few of the easi
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Airborne soldiers. shown here durin
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Smoke in background is fruin [up.ui
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It has pronounced step characterist
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TIIC{"II""IIIi; ;lItidc j, till' I/
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OCTOBER,1944 The first thing the a\
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YOUR ENEMY All ;Iirer;!ft fllillg o
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->",i" .""tJnil'et hj/'- By Col. Do
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28 011 BOll~aiIldk is quicklv unloa
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the plane landed, a jccp would driv
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THE PHiliPPINES DISTANCES SHOWN IN
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The economic system of the Philippi
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The AAF's homing pigeons are recogn
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Our aviation engineers had to fight
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---- technique • -- - --- . RUNWA
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High Intensity Controlled Lighting
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Attached to a flyer's ear, the Oxim
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Automatic Pilot Trainer-A new train
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3 5 7 Surprised by the friendliness
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TIM ELY A D V ICE FRO M THE A I R I
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R.6 I:>:CJ: the AAF S helicopter, t
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SS I. You on the left, Buddy, appea
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ever .nrivc at a fir',t ~Iid stut i
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p:rinted on the outvi.lc wrt l: ,ih
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tanks and truck-borne infantry and
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FIGHTER CONTROL (Colltilltled from
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Property of tDe Library ARMY INDtJS
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For the Record I)e:lr h!Jtlll Rende
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he Allie's into German-held of the
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H Combat may make you Lazy By Maj.
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..... -; ... The results of two yea
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Production charts show the disaster
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all key points of the factory's 3-+
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HE Fortresses T wings to the took o
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'l'h is was a YClr ago, but these a
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Pulling in His Ne-:I:. Reeelit de,c
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When a radio operator makes a mista
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Lifeline to the US,S R BY HERBERT R
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Ten o'clock of a December morning a
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THE MAN WITH THE PRIVATE BREEZE By
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THE AIR WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFI
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STANDARD FLIGHT INSTRUMENT PANEL E
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It 11c:l!,illg l.ot h sidc
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, , ,CO:-iTI:-iUI:D ]'\o\\', pacbgi
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technique ••• CO]\;Tl:"UED Ne
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INSTRUMENT PANEL (Continued from Pa
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LIFELINE TO THE US S R ( Cout iuucc
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F\lr:RCF'\~CY FOUrp\lr:,\'T luvpcct
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50 COMBAT MAY MAKE YOU LAZY (Contin
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EN of the AAF-including the hundred
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.I In. ]~rhO:S-':cl the'mll-it:IIT
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August 7. Patton kept moving his he
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l'Iiavigation Training En Masse. Th
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"WE arc not going to bubble over wi
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A wood block support; injured legs
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Burma. A Japanese light antiaircraf
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HOW ,SHARP ARE YOU? A 'hoto Test of
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Page 138 and 139: Tacloban strip \\";IS not sC'ITicca
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Page 144 and 145: Underground. ,'~ group of worried m
Page 146 and 147: volunteers between the agcs of II .
Page 148 and 149: I f By Capt. Greer Williams Air SlI
Page 150 and 151: Flaming debris (If njllI, ])1]]1:ll
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Page 155 and 156: two weeks: Cincinnati. one week: Pi
Page 157 and 158: At 5.000 fed. the pilot opened the
Page 159 and 160: cardboard bombs on their choice of
Page 161 and 162: turn to Traffic Scction, Crcnicr Fi
Page 163 and 164: Oil refineries arc gooel targets, T
Page 165 and 166: Tile air campaign to choke off fuel
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Page 182 and 183: j ._3 Thirteen days after the 13th
Page 184 and 185: THE ABC OF D-DAY When an invasion i
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Page 198: We're more than 2,300,000 individua
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