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Even conservative observers wondered whether the week might not have brought an historic turning point of World War II. No Allied airman was so brash as to say the Luftwaffe was not strong enough to go up to fight. Weather, weariness and disorganization from the earlier battles- any or all of these might have influenced the Nazi fighter command's decision...
...failed to return-a record eclipsing the old mark of 60 lost over Schweinfurt. One division of U.S. bombers alone shot down at least 40 Nazi planes, making a total of 123, with many a squadron yet to be heard from. The battle had been hard. Said one returning airman...
...Paymaster. In all England no one was happier about the results than a wry, freckled Pennsylvania Dutchman, Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, commander of U.S. strategic bombing forces. "Tooey" Spaatz is a hardboiled, able airman who has fought the battles of air power all the way from Washington to Britain to Africa and back to Britain again, shrugging off every disappointment, every setback, with the glumly philosophic phrase: "That's a helluva way to run a railroad...
Bombing stories again became the main topic of conversation in pubs, clubs, offices, busses and homes, on the old basis of ril-listen-to-your-bomb-if-you'11-listen-to-mine. There was the new tale of a German airman who parachuted from his crippled bomber, then had to hike seven miles, trying at an inn and three villages before he could get someone to capture him. There was the heartbreaking story of the big London distillery that took a hit and the stock of gin that was lost...
...John Henrys. Advocates of a wider use of naval air power cheered when the Navy boosted its No. 1 aviator into the job of deputy commander in the Pacific-in the nation's current strategy the No. 2 operations job. The airman: quiet, serious, 59-year-old Vice Admiral John Henry Towers...