Word: 109s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been hearing heavy German concentrations land on the nearest village . . . since 4 a.m. . . . [You will get] an idea of the staff sergeant's enthusiasm when I say that he stopped reading his textbook only when our own batteries opened up on some Me-109s that were gyrating around overhead...
...that the Schweinfurt mission in which we lost 60 of our bombers may prove to have been one of the decisive air actions of the war." The Schweinfurt plants produced over 50% of Germany's ball bearings. The Regensburg raid caused a loss in production of 500 ME-109s. Cost of that raid to the Eighth Bomber Command...
...Allies worked doggedly to overcome the difficulties of supplying forward bases. Reinforcements arrived. Long-range, multipurpose P-38 Lightnings flew from England with extra fuel tanks strapped to their bellies, fought back Messerschmitt 109s and Focke-Wulf 190s, which thus far had reigned supreme. Tropicalized Spitfires arrived, Marauders, Mitchells, Bostons, Airacobras, Hurri-bombers, Hurricanes carrying tank-busting cannon. In late January the British Eighth Army drew up in the south with its powerful Allied Western Desert air forces...
They found what they were looking for. Four of them were jumped up by 25 of the Germans' new Focke-Wulf 190s and Messerschmitt 109s. They fought them on their own. And one page of what will have to be a book of proof, was complete. Gunners in the Fortresses knocked down three German planes, damaged at least nine more. But U.S. airmen and especially Bomber Commander Ira Eaker were interested in something more than that the Fortresses had beaten off an attack against overwhelming odds. They were most interested in the fact that again all the Fortresses...
...west was spread thin. Day raids by between 100 and 300 British fighters and bombers at first had easy pickings. In the first month of the Battle of Germany, Hurricanes and Spitfires flew 2,000,000 plane-miles in offensive sweeps and patrols, and destroyed 301 old Messerschmitt 109s, while losing only 118 of their own fighter planes (the British lost 112 bombers in the same period...