The tunnel thru the air : $b or, Looking back from 1940Gann, William D. (William Delbert)
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The tunnel thru the air : $b or, Looking back from 1940
Gann, William D. (William Delbert)
Imaginary wars and battles -- Fiction; Science fiction
and thought they had made a mistake in allowing 15 days' armistice,
now that the United States had decided to fight again. How they could
hope to win, the enemy could not see. They decided to teach this young,
boastful commander a lesson that he would never forget.
On Thanksgiving night, November 24th, the attack was ordered. Supreme
Commander Gordon was at dinner and a messenger interrupted him to
tell him that "Tel-Talk" had picked up an important message. He rushed
to the secret room and noticed that a conference had been held and
orders given by the enemy to attack Detroit that night. He immediately
communicated this information secretly with the new Pocket-Radio to
Colonel Kennelworth in Cincinnati. Told him to be in readiness to
adjust the Tunnel machine and change the location and altitude any
moment that he instructed. He ordered all the lights in the streets
of Detroit to be kept on that night. It has been the custom for many
months, since long before the attack at Chicago, to keep all the cities
in darkness at night.
He had just completed another new invention which he called the Radium
Ray. With this Ray he could locate anything in the sky 75 to 100 miles
away. He had the Radium Ray machine in readiness to search the sky for
the first attack that night. Just before 10 o'clock he was sweeping the
sky with the Radium Ray when he discovered the enemy planes approaching
from the direction of Chicago. There was a large flock of them flying
at very high altitudes, followed by three large supply ships. He knew
that these supply ships would anchor in the air somewhere over Detroit
and the bombing planes would make the attack. He decided to send
Captain Morrison, the famous aviator who had distinguished himself at
the battle of Chicago, to lead a fleet of decoy airplanes to meet the
invading planes and to lead them into the Tunnel thru the Air. Captain
Morrison led his swift cruisers into the air to the greatest heights
they could rise, and as they neared the approaching enemy they began
to turn loose the rapid-firing anti-aircraft guns. As soon as the enemy
discovered the firing, they turned their searchlights on our planes,
located and started after them. Captain Morrison obeyed orders and
retreated rapidly with the other planes following. He made straight for
Detroit to the vicinity of main buildings and factory districts with
the enemy planes in hot pursuit. Suddenly he received a radio message
from Supreme Commander Gordon to descend very low and fly Northwest.
At this time the Supreme Commander was in communication with Colonel
Kennelworth and they had adjusted the Tunnel machines and established
the Tunnel thru the Air.
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