Pilots and air crews drew the public cheers for the dramatic Saipan-based B-29 bombings of Japan. But airmen themselves had a special hurrah for the prop men of the show, the Army's aviation engineers. In building bases for the Superforts, they had performed one of the great engineering feats of World War II.
Boss of the job was handsome, 27-year-old Lieut. Colonel Edward A. Flanders, one of the top 10% in West Point's class of '40. When "Wonder Boy" Flanders arrived on Saipan, the invasion was only five days old and the battle still...
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