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Our shoulder flashes now changed, the red flames were extinguished and were replaced by an 8-pointed red star smack in the middle of the bomber; still very pretty and prophetic. Of the many thousands of characters whom I encountered during my six-and-a-half years of army life most have drifted into obscurity but some are still with me; such a one was Brigadier Barbary of 55 Brigade.
If it was only a big seaplane now, such as we hear they're building over in America, we might drop down on a smooth sea and wait to be picked up by some ship; but with a bomber, it would mean going under in a hurry." "Make your mind easy on that score, Jack," came the lieutenant's reply.
I had an idea that my man was not a bomber." "I thought that you scorned theories," I put in dryly. "When they are wrong they mislead you, and when they are right they are no help." Dawson frowned. "Shut up, Copplestone," snapped Cary. "We were in no danger from the lighting, heating, and telephone wires, for any defect would have been visible at once.
Looking through the smoke and the bursts of flak, Stan saw nothing of O'Malley. The Irishman had been in the midst of a fight a few minutes before, but now he was nowhere to be seen. He checked the bomber flight. It was going in for its bombing run and the batteries on the ground knew just where the automatic pilots would take over for the run. They were putting up a box barrage at that point.
"You're the best sort of jollier, Tom," he observed. "You know how to talk to a fellow who's quivering all over with eagerness and dread. What if something happens to hold up those notices until it's too late for even Colin's big bomber to catch up with the steamer?" "You're only borrowing trouble when you allow yourself to fear that," was the reply.
The next day the Air Force identified the UFO's; they were Air Force airplanes, KC-97 aerial tankers, refueling B-47 jet bombers in flight. The reason for the weird effect that startled so many Southern Californians was that when the refueling is taking place a floodlight on the bottom of the tanker airplane lights up the bomber that is being refueled.
The official answer for this incident is that the huge orange-red UFO was nothing more than the light from the many northern Indiana blast furnaces reflecting a haze layer. Could be, but the pilots say no. There were similar sightings in North Korea two years later and FEAF Bomber Command had caused a shortage of blast furnaces in North Korea.
Therefore, I have consistently advocated and strongly urged that we pursue three critical strategic programs: the Trident missile launching submarine; the B-1 bomber, with its superior capability to penetrate modern air defenses; and a more advanced intercontinental ballistic missile that will be better able to survive nuclear attack and deliver a devastating retaliatory strike.
He looked down from the fuselage at the bright upturned face. "Oh, aye, it was me," he admitted, "an' A'm michty glad ye was lookin', for A' was throwin' stunts for ye." He was on the ground now, loosening the collar of his leather jacket. He stepped clear of the obstructing planes of his machine and looked anxiously toward the gentle slopes of the ridge on which the bomber had landed.
"I went into the smoke and did not see it until I flew over it on the ground." Silence followed this remark. Finally the colonel spoke. "We'll report him missing in action and hope for the best." "Sure, an' I'm thinkin' the Jerries were plenty mad," O'Malley said grimly. "The thing to do is to check with bomber operations and locate the spots where they run into the most fighters.
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