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Measure of Success. No airman had ever contended that air power alone could stop an offensive, even in perfect weather. But the destruction of those fog-shrouded Nazi tanks could stand as a textbook example of tactical air power soundly applied under correct air-force doctrine...
...weather had been as good for seven days as it was for three, last week would have been an Allied airman's dream week. Even in spotty weather air power dealt the Germans bitter blows...
When he volunteered, Navy Lieut. Thomas Ladwig knew that flying a night fighter from a carrier was a hazardous job. But not even 25-year-old Airman Ladwig had bargained for the miraculous series of near-misses death flung at him last week. He remembered this much...
...only one left of his 1939 squadron's 26 men. "Great Guy" Gibson had become a legend in the R.A.F. He was the famed "Dam Buster" (so dubbed by Winston Churchill after the spectacular Möhne and Eder dam-breaching raids); Britain's most decorated airman (the Victoria Cross, the Distinguished Flying Cross and bar, the Distinguished Service Order and bar); "the most experienced bomber pilot in the world...
...those who had hoped that all the problems of global flying could be settled now and through some form of international body, the conference was a failure. But it accomplished some things (many an airman, for instance, well aware of the difference between the postwar fares which Britain and the U.S. expect to charge, cheered when rigid fare-fixing and quotas went by the board). But the U.S. is in favor of minimum fares (to prevent over-subsidization), which the airlines themselves are conferring about but which will not be a part of the pact. The net effect...