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edge. There are many moments when several fragments of different rain-
bows can be seen at the same time. If the rainbows are not present one
can always look for the dodging shedowcef the plane as represented by

@ constricted dot in the center of a radiating hilation of red and yellow
pattern as it intercepts all cloud masses. If the cloud is near and with
smeoth broad surfaces the perect outline of the plane can be seen.

In the evening glided dow to the Azore Islands for refueling and
organization for departure for the following morning. At this point
observed for the first time the actual effect of the war. The buildings
showed shrapnel and bullet penetrations with the tops of many of the trees
broken off. After supper and a short rest prepared for departure for
Casa Blanca in North Africa.

9-25-44, AAzore Islands. At about day break gained our position among
the clouds for our second mornings flight. The thing I saw this morning

was not intended to fit into description or language and whatever there

_is in the human way of expressing the beautiful, the elegant, the fantast—

ic and mystical, the gorgeous, gigantic, ecstatic and unbelievable and
exhalted, is for from adequate. One passes into the realm of faryland
and freamland whereupon awaking he finds his powers of delineation of the
things he witnesses is a complete failure.

As the cold morning dawn breaks one finds an entirely new world with
no similarity or comparison with the previous day and one wonders about
the infinite and unlimited possibilities of conditions between the
two sky experiences enjoyed to date. I am sure that there is a complete
and fine gradation between these two rare atmospheric pictures. From
the heginning to the conclusionzef this mornings flight I was living in an
atmospheric and physiographic likeness of the antarctic where that feel-
ing of the frigid and its associated topography pervades the experience,

Once above the dark rain clouds of our earthly experience one finds
the early dawn with a clear blue geey sky above and devoid of clouds
overhead except one gar like streak of black velvet in the path of the

light section of the sky to the east. The closely compact fracto-cumulus