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...Allies, in their campaign, are using the greatest air force the world has known: a combination of the daylight precision bombing planes of the U.S. Eighth Air Force and the heavy nighttime saturation raiders of the R.A.F. This combined force is fighting a new kind of aerial war. with strategy and tactics made possible by the unique combination of day & night bombers, and by the quantity of subsidiary aircraft for diversionary attacks which the U.S. and Britain could supply. The effects of their joint offensive have already been felt on every battlefield in Europe. If they can overcome the German...
...most interesting features of occupying an enemy-held position is to check on the damage done to it. Our naval gunfire in Gertrude Cove had been effective beyond expectations. Many direct hits had been scored on buildings there. But I was disappointed at the apparent ineffectiveness of our aerial bombardment. Some buildings had received a direct hit or two during the hundreds of raids in the past 14 months, but the Japs themselves blew up their subs and the Zero wings and tails in the hangar were damaged by strafing, not bombing. Bomb hits had scarcely affected the Allis-Chalmers...
...week traveled some 90 U.S. professional men to listen to learned lectures, to watch exhibitions of technique, to talk shop. They looked like any other group of scientists or educators, except that they wore khaki. In a sense they were educators: The deans and professors of the science of aerial warfare. Their profession: killing Japs and Nazis on the wing. Their special field: the high and delicate art of fixed gunnery, practiced in fighter planes while moving several hundred miles an hour...
...Aerial Gunner" with Chester Morris and Richard Arlen while it at least has some plot, falls too much into the rut of the usual war pictures. If you like that blood and thunder stuff that acts like sandpaper on your nerves, you might like "Aerial Gunner...
...other targets felt the weight of more than 1,500 tons of bombs, including thousands of incendiaries. Returning pilots reported the Germans using Dornier-217 bombers as night fighters, indicating the Nazi shortage of fighter aircraft. Pesky Mosquito bombers flying at 400 m.p.h. gave Berlin its 68th and 69th aerial pastings of the war. This week allied planes hit again at Paris' Le Bourget, six other French fields...