War: The Gooney Bird

The ten-year-old C-47 never before carried such strange armaments or unusual people. Instead of guns, the army ingloriously stuck a huge loudspeaker into the old "Gooney Bird's" black belly. And every night, two young Korean girls, looking like high school students, clambered into the "Gooney Bird" and settled down for a night's work.

While many a faster, flashier cousin was earthbound last week for lack of targets, the C-47 creaked in slow circles over enemy territory as the girls broadcast a steadv chatter to the Communist soldiers below. Unperturbed by the heavy flak which broadcasting planes invariably draw, the two girls talked...

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