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...authority in Britain, wrote in the London Sunday Times that it would be a tragedy to squander American lives in U.S. heavy bombers over Germany-either by day or by night. The New York Times quoted him, repeated his suggestion that the U.S. craft-Flying Fortresses and Consolidated B-24s-be assigned to coastal duty. The New York Herald Tribune got the same sentiment from R.A.F. men. News services picked up the British contention, broadcast it far & wide...
...hour period 166 Spitfires and Hurricanes made repeated raids over Rommel's position; 75 P-40s (Kittyhawks) attacked trucks at El Daba; 130 bombers accompanied by 127 fighters raided Rommel's routes and positions; at night 84 Wellingtons, six Blenheims and eight B-24s (Liberators) bombed Rommel's trucks at El Daba and shipping at Bengasi. This week the Royal Navy suddenly returned to action in the Mediterranean, shelled Rommel's base at Matr...
...airmen and bombers appeared at an R.A.F. airdrome. Under Colonel Harry A. Halverson of Boone, Iowa they moved into stone quarters in the desert, shared an R.A.F. mess, labored mightily in the heat to prepare for their forays. First their long-range, four-engined B-24s (Liberators) struck across the Mediterranean and Turkey at Rumania's oilfields, possibly at other targets in the Black Sea (TIME, June 22). Last week eight U.S. B-24s (including one flown by an R.A.F. crew) attacked an Italian Fleet which set out to raid British Mediterranean convoys...
...24s caught two Italian battleships and a heavy cruiser in their bomb-sights, proved that those secret U.S. instruments work superbly. Twenty bombs plastered one of the battleships, 15 the other. Said the flight commander, Major Alfred F. Kalberer, of LaFayette, Ind.: "It was like shooting fish in a barrel." Unhappily, the fish refused to die. Later an R.A.F. torpedo slowed one of the battleships, sank the bombed cruiser...
...that anyone would admit was that the planes had landed in Turkey. Three of the bug-bellied, four-engined B-24s settled snugly on Ankara's airdrome, disgorging 21 jubilant men & officers in U.S. Army Air Force uniforms. One crashed near Ismit, between Ankara and Rumania's Nazified oil fields, with a Messerschmitt on its tail and the marks of Turkish anti-aircraft fire on its seamed skin. The official report was that they...