Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Back to Back. Major General Jimmy Doolittle's 12th Air Force probably had enough planes to provide support in the air. From North Africa came reports of P-38 Lightnings meeting and beating Focke-Wulf 1905 and Messerschmitt 109Gs in their first major combat test. The difficulty was the lack of airdromes near enough to the front. The small French bases that were available were not equipped. Oil, gas and equipment for servicing had to be laboriously moved up. The difficulty was supply...
...apparently the scales were being slowly tipped. Algeria-based bombers of Major General Jimmy Doolittle's 12th Air Force blasted Axis fields, crippling Axis fighter operations by bombing their nests. From Libya and from the island of Malta came other Allied bombers. Fighter bases were improvised in the rear of the rolling First Army, and from these, in swelling numbers, Spitfires rose to mix with swooping Axis dive-bombers...
Overhead soared R.A.F. fighters and the heavy bombers of Jimmy Doolittle's 12th Air Force, sprinkling paratroops into strategic spots, raining destruction on Axis-held airfields. Major General* Doolittle's job was just beginning. London reported that Hitler had massed 1,000 planes in Sicily, Sardinia, south Italy and Crete. If he launched them into North Africa, Doolittle and his U.S. and R.A.F. flyers would have their hands full...
Better than Hollywood. The most diverse flying team of World War II went into North Africa with Jimmy Doolittle. His own 12th Air Force, spawned and trained by Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's 8th in Britain, toted a battalion of U.S. parachutists 1,500 miles from Britain to Oran (previous paratroops record: the Luftwaffe's 325-mile hop from Namsos to Narvik). U.S. fighter pilots in British Spitfires took off from British carriers, strafed Vichy columns and airdromes, met a few French Dewoitine fighters in Algeria. British Fleet Air Arm pilots in Albacore torpedo-bombers also fought...
...Department announced formation of four new armored divisions, making 14 in all. Of these, the 11th is already formed, the 12th is forming, 13th and 14th* will soon get under way. (The 7th and 11th will compose the new Third Armored Corps under Major General Willis D. Crittenberger at Camp Polk...