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CAPTAIN GABLE, "GRIM
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New photos of Captain Clark Gable as he looks today, by U. S. Signal Corps. Above, last studio portrait made before he went overseas, when he was still a Lieutenant.
Exclusive! Our British correspondent gives you a first-hand report on the former movie idol now serving his country in the Air Corps
OVERHEAD a great flying Fortress roared up. toward the white-flecked sky as it set off from its English airfield for a raid over Nazi territory. Clark Gable stood beside me watching it leave, his tall figure loose and shapeless in his flying suit and yellow life preserver vest. The pale morning sun caught the streaks of grey in his crisp dark hair, reflecting again in his eyes as he shaded them with an oilstained hand.
"It's a grand job." he pronounced, "I'm proud to be helping with it."
He said it with quiet sincerity that needed no emphasis, for the long unpublicized trip that brought him across the Atlantic was his own choice, just as he originally decided to give up the second highest screen salary in America in order to become Captain Gable of the U. S. Army Air Corps, gunnery instructor on a heavy bomber station and merely "one of the boys" there.
Last summer General Luther Smith, who directs the Air Corps Training, asked Clark if he felt he could undertake a special assignment. It was believed that a film actually taken on operations would teach battle tactics to trainees far more effectively than lectures alone and lead to many improvements in the difficult art of gunnery technique in the air. Would Captain Gable like to help?
When Clark agreed, he was sent to England with two old friends from Hollywood, Lieutenant A. J. Mclntyre who was the cameraman for "Test Pilot" and Lieutenant George Mahin, the script writer of "Boom Town" and now of this new film which none of Clark's women fans will ever see. It has more thrills packed into it than anything ever conceived in a studio, for this is reality, the hard grim stuff of war in its fiercest and bitterest phase.
Its stars are the pilots, the navigators, the gunners and the radio operators — men who have come back from scores of Fortress raids on Germany, sometimes (Please turn to vage 64 )
By Hettie Grimstead