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Examination Center experts tell me —
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guessing when, taking the examination
ever get rated,so your odds aren't very
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STUDY — RIGHT NOW, TONIGHT — in eveiy
spare moment until the examination. Ask
your senior- petty officers questions
you are in doubt about\ ask your Divi
sion Officer, they will all .be glad to
help you — remember they were in the
same position as you one time.
The schedule for taking exams are as
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planes that had been totally destroyed.
That’s how it got its name, "Alexander
the Swoose," from the Walt Disney char
acter that was half goose, half swan.
■Alexander set a wartime record by av
eraging 150 combat hours'a month.In one
year it.flew enough missions over the
Philippines and Dutch East- -Indies to
equal- 15 flights around the world.
* By V-J Day the famous fortress was.
unoperational,one more Daxxerea huik an
a graveyard of surplus planes. But its
magnificient record of service was not
forgotten by the Air Force which tagged
it for permanent display in the Smith
sohian Institution's Air Museum.
• Many tall stories are told about the
B-17rs«i A favotire concerns the plane
that developed engine trouble over It
aly. Its crew bailed out, leaving behind
two small dogs they carried as mascots.
Droning along on two: engines,the plane
was over Turkey when it ran out of gas
and glided down to a perfect landing,
Turkish soldiers hurried up to inspect
it. They found only the two dogs.
To this day it is a legend among the
Turks that during the war the Americans
trained dogs to fly their bombers.