World War II Chronicle: January 19, 1942
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British prime minister Winston Churchill is pictured on the front page at the controls of the Boeing 314 Clipper carrying him back to Britain on Saturday. The crew mistakenly heads for Nazi-occupied France due to a navigational error (hopefully not as a result of Churchill’s piloting), but catches their mistake before German fighters shoot them down. Out of danger from enemy guns, they soar into friendly ones: the clipper is now heading north from enemy territory and is picked up by the Royal Air Force radar operators who dispatch their own interceptors. Fortunately they can not locate the “bogey” and the prime minister lands safely…
The massive Vought-Sikorsky VS-44 flying boat is pictured on page 10. Over half of America’s airliners were commandeered by the U.S. government when the war began, so Sikorsky is hoping to get into the transatlantic game with their commercial version of the XPBS-1, which first flew back in August 1937. Excalibur and her sister ships will have a serious competitor in the impressive — and already established — Boeing 314… Sports section begins on page 16
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 19 January 1942. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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