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...Then at week's end came brighter reports. Heavy and medium U.S. bombers unleashed two days of concentrated raiding on the docks of Tunis. The waterfront of that seaport was left in flames over a distance of ten blocks. Allied fighter operations were suddenly on the increase. P-38s (see p. 83) made a sweep across Tunisia's waist to attack Axis concentrations near Sfax. One dispatch told of Allied paratroops occupying an airdrome from which British Spitfires took off 30 minutes later to challenge the Luftwaffe...
...Operating from Guadalcanal with Flying Fortresses, P-38s shot down five Japanese Zeros without loss to themselves...
...North Africa, P-38s destroyed 20 Italian troop transports, three other planes, eleven tanks in a couple of days. Against Germany's Messerschmitt 109-G and the Focke-Wulf 190, the P-38s had scored "about even," which prompted Air Forces Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold to predict: "If we can continue to destroy the Germans plane for plane, the result cannot long be in doubt because our production is at least double the German production...
Army bombers, escorted by Lockheed P-38 fighters, dropped out of the Aleutian fogs and plastered Kiska harbor. Four Jap Zero fighters were shot down. An estimated 500 Japanese soldiers were killed or wounded. The announcement that the long-range P-38s had been used foreshadowed a new technique in aerial bombardment.* The raids on Kiska also foreshadowed the day when U.S air power, flowing north over the new Canadian inland air route, may blast the Japs out of Kiska-and move on toward Tokyo...
...With a practicable combat radius of 600 miles or more, compared to about 150 miles for Spitfires, the P-38s greatly extend the areas in continental Europe which can be attacked under essential fighter cover...