3-Chapter+8

=**Important Events**= > **off for takeoff.**
 * **Major Jonathan Coxwell barely made it past takeoff but slammed into the water**
 * **Several B-24 planes caught fire, leaked oil, blew up, or gave out when about to fly**
 * **Several dozens of men were killed in B-24 accidents before their takeoff just in Hawaii**
 * **In January 1943 alone there was 10 serious Mechanical Problems with the B-24, Super-Man**
 * **In the early days of 1943 men died after one another, and every man dealt with the looses**
 * **On Kwajalein, in the Marshall Islands, POW'S were murdered by the japanese**

=**Unfamiliar Words**=
 * **Flak- Bomb; torpedo; (Hillenbrand; pg 81)**
 * **Super Man- Phil's Crew's B-24 suffered a LOT of DAMAGE (Hillenbrand; pg 80-81)**
 * **B-17- relation to B-24 wide, low wings that formed a flat surface that could surf onto water (Hillenbrand; pg 85)**

=**Questions**=


 * LEVEL ONE**
 * **What are B-24's?**
 * **What was the "Super Man?"**


 * LEVEL TWO**
 * **Why were the Men terrified of flying even if they were good at it?**
 * **What drove the Men to drinking a Lot?**


 * LEVEL THREE**
 * **How does Louie feel and react about the numerous amounts of loss of soldiers during the practice runs?**