(5 of 5)
Our veteran mountain captains, George Lothian and Lindy Rood, have told me of meeting creatures similar to "saskwatchs" on recent trips across the North Atlantic, and I am sure that your story will prove of great benefit to them. They had felt rather hurt that their supposedly good friends would prove so mischievous.
THOMAS W. KIRKHAM S
upervisor of Passenger Agents
Trans-Canada Air Lines
Winnipeg
Not for Sissies
Sirs:
The photo on p. 59 of TIME, Aug. 24, showing the "troop glider" gave many of us who have recently become glider pilots our first glimpse of the "blitzkrieg boxcars" we will use. Thanks for the preview. . . .
The following verses were written by the men in training at this glider school. Apparently they hadn't read the recent issue of TIME which told of successful pickups of gliders by low-flying aircraft. In any event the verses are indicative of the morale in the Glider Command which you can plainly see is excellent.
ONLY SISSIES NEED MOTORS
. . . You can have your high-powered Cyclones
And your liquid-cooled Allisons, too.
Give me a handful of thermals
And a thunderstorm or two. . . .
We'll load up with sixty Commandos
Five jeeps and a big G.I. truck,
Land in the outskirts of Munich —
Sweetheart, please wish me luck. . . .
Now, after we finish at Munich
And have Hitler's guts in a sack
There's only one question unanswered:
Oh, how are we going to get back?
WILLIAM C. LAZARUS
Captain, U.S.A.A.F.
Waco, Tex. -Name withheld by request.
* To Professor (of Pharmacology) Marsh thanks for a provocative critique of the homemade-panties gas mask reported (reservedly) by TIME.—ED.