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...four-motored bombers, escorted by some 300 Allied fighter planes, soared in a day-long procession across the Channel, bombed and strafed a Nazi-held airfield and supply lines in Holland and France...
Also revealed last week was the establishment of a Jap airfield at Munda on New Georgia Island, only 150 miles from Guadalcanal. U.S. forces could now expect more frequent raids than the daily bombing between twelve and two and the nightly nuisance raid of solitary "Washing-Machine Charley...
...been getting word of the Jap's activity in the Tulagi area. He'd been there a long while, and when reports came in about that airfield on Guadalcanal it heightened our interest. If our attack had been delayed a week, the Jap would have been able to use that airfield...
...most forceful officer I have ever known" was the way Major Elbert Helton, one of the 19th's squadron commanders, characterized 37-year-old Lieut. Colonel Austin Straubel, who was wounded over Surabaya but managed to land his B18 on a small airfield. Colonel Straubel had died when help arrived...
...Rewards. West of El Alamein we came to an airfield full of dozens of dispersed Me-109Fs in almost perfect condition. The Luftwaffe had fled in near panic, but its leavings were evidence that Germany is still a long way from exhaustion...