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James Stewart, former screen Serving as operations officer for an 8th USAAF; B-24 bomber group, he has flown 14 combat missions, holds Distinguished Flying Cross and Air Medal with' oak leaf cluster. He's, pictured, left, above, at his group's: English base, | distributing 'flight forms to pilots before they take off to participate in invasion of France. NAZI- iy § ve i. Rocket-launching planes like: this blasted German coastal forii to pave' way for Allied invasion, and -are constantly harassing enemy Photo shows "a rocket zooming out from the launcher on an R.A.F. Beaufighter plane. RAF. flyers say that rocket salvos hit like @-inch naval guns, communications inland in France. BLASTING ROCKETEER 24 fications are far deadlier than bombs. Said one, of his latest convoy attack: "My salvo blew the whole . stern away. I had to weave plenty to get out of the way of chunks of ship that came up at, me." = : Last week the U, S. War and Navy, Departments announced that six types "of U. 8. fighters and fighter bombers have been equipped with ; focket guns, that they have been used in the Pacific, Burma and Medit- erranean theatres, says Time M { agazine, .,fired, Their penetration power; and fannii effective against barges, bivouac areas, fuel and ammunition dumps. . Rocket pro weapons: of World War II. ectiles, lacking the control|of rifling, cannot be aimed very accurately. except at short range. But on the invasion coast there are plenty of targets made to order for ockets give little recoil when ng explosions are spectacularly one of the few basically new Consigation goes cay vay" "I'm delighted I found' out about ALL-BRAN, for it ended my constipa- tion woes, It rid me of taking nasty harsh purgatives--which never helped more T 'than a day or 80. Now, thanks} goadness, I'm an. 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FROM REEL TO REAL pe TE A Screen stars 3 Alexis, Smith and «Stevens, . above, wi "wed" in the motion picture "Tha Doughgirls," and liked the idea so much that they decided to do it in real life. They plan to be mar- ried in June, \ SWASTIKA SCOREBOARD Everytime anti-aircraft gunners of a Dover, England, regiment knock down a Nazi plane, they pin a metal swastika on this jacket, worn by Gunner W. O. Law. Leather jacket, with 18 swastikas, formerly be- longed to Nazi pilot and was salvaged from wreckage of his plane. ... SHE LET'S A MAN GO TO WAR ER Fe 5 § w. LE ve i] ] There's really no such thing as an international boundary line for Zita like Pat Pateman. She's constantly on the go ferrying planes from Can- adian and U.S. aircraft plants to air training camps all over the con- tinent. She's a member of the Women's Air Service Pilot Force, making - her a WASP. This picture was taken at Fleet, Fort Erie, Ont., now as- sisting the Lancaster big bomber program. 'CROSS-CHANNEL HEADACHE--WEATHER, TIDES, TERRAIN STORMS COMMON MAXIMUM CURRENT IWLATEFALL . SPEED 3! ; AND WINTER PEED 3%; KNOTS English Channel Rocky " < BE Shores ALDERNEY cg) QUERNSEY EDS : SARK, \R CHANNEL 15. [C3 1 JERSEY SEE Bad weather over the English Channel delayed D-Day for 24 hours. staggering ashore, weak from seasickness, Ma Era, | ®Rotterdam - . ZN Flushing, > Eindhoven]. ZeebruggeZ - 0 eAntwerp hs oBrussols: : BELGIUM "or Mons omar BG 7 Aras st, Yolory 40 Le Crotoy sur-Somme Abberills : RE A } fii tin Chartgila On real D-Day SROPDY channel waters sent many an Allied fighter above shows some tricks of tide and terrain Allied High Command stil must cope with to maintain steady stream of supplies and reinforcements as invasion forces expand beachheads, push further into France, At lod es lm AES AAA - Sw CETTE AN Ea EN