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...Backward. By August 1918 a mixed collection of 200 planes was able to launch a mass bombing attack on a German advanced airfield. Unorthodox were the tactics of two pilots who landed on the field, fired machine guns into the officers' mess, took off again safely. Unwritten laws, such as wining & dining captured pilots and never shooting up an enemy plane that had been forced to land, were usually observed by both sides. Flowers floated down after an enemy pilot had been killed. Messages were sometimes dropped by German pilots, requesting clothes for some fallen Britisher who had crashed...
...hint of waxing Jap air power appeared in the South Pacific last week. For months only handfuls of Japanese raiders had stung Allied bases in New Guinea and the Solomons. Suddenly they swarmed out in force. Twenty-six bombers and eleven fighters struck at Wau, the airfield closest to Jap-held Salamaua. Forty raiders attacked Oro Bay south of Buna. Jap air strength, waning at the end of 1942, seemed to be surging back...
LONDON--American-built Ventura bombers of the RAF, escorted by a strong cover of British Spitfires, attacked the enemy airfield a St. Brieuc, on the Brittany coast of France, last yesterday, an Air Ministry communique said today...
...Neukolln, near the big Tempelhof airfield, workers sat in the damp cellars of the old stone houses with horror in their hearts. Their city had been bombed 58 times before, but never like this (their district was the first to be hit by the R.A.F. two years and a half ago). They did not know what was happening along Unter den Linden; they could not hear, for bombs were raining all around them too. The airport was splashed with red flame. Fire and smoke mushroomed from the big power stations southeast of the field...
LONDON -- Royal Air Force Whirl-winds attacked the German airfield at Maupertus, France, this afternoon, the Air Ministry announced, and Mosquito bombers raided factories at Hendelo, Holland, and near Liege, Belgium. Escorting Spitfires destroyed one enemy fighter. No British planes were missing...