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Headline: Grady
Coffee Is Attending Large Bombing School
Minden Boy Is In Second Class of U. S. Army's "Hell From Heaven Men"
Midland Army Flying School, Texas - Among the "Hell from Heaven Men" making
up the second class at this world's greatest bombardier training school is
Aviation Cadet Loy G. Coffee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert L. Coffee of
Minden, Louisiana. At the completion of his course Cadet Coffee will become
a commissioned officer in the United States army.
Formerly a student at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana,
Cadet Coffee had previously received R. O. T. C. and national guard
training, and while in civilian life he was actively interested in golf.
Training
At this
huge new training school for America's bombardiers, young men learn
the secrets and operation of our country's most devastating weapon
of offense, the famed U. S. bombsight. The bombardier cadets divide
their time between ground school classrooms, spacious training
hangars, and the swift-flying AT'LL's, specially designed bombardier
training planes.
When
they have the theory down pat, when they understand the
why-and-wherefore of bombs and bombsights, the cadets crawl into the
glass-enclosed nose compartments of their planes, spend day and
night house sending 100-pound practice bombs streaking toward
targets that surround this bombardier college in an eighty mile
circle.
Their
course completed, these "Hell from Heaven Men" are good; are in
fact, the best. That's why they've been dubbed "the most dangerous
men in the world."
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