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...Whose B26...
...missions we lost one crew-after we had arrived at the right way to use the B26...
Helping him for the past two and a half months has been little-known, hard-working Colonel Samuel Anderson of Greensboro, N.C., whose American (B26) Marauder force has been lambasting Germany's major air bases in France and the Low Countries. Anderson told newsmen that the Nazis have already been forced to evacuate a large number of key fighter bases...
...plane climbed out over the Mediterranean, Ector Bolzoni was pretty scared. He admitted as much to TIME Correspondent John Hersey, who was aboard his B26, kneeling between Co-pilot Bolzoni's seat and the pilot's. "Usually you picture a capital defended strongly," Bolzoni said. But gradually Bolzoni's interest in what lay ahead got the better of his nervousness. Hersey saw him hunch forward and strain to see ahead when they were still a good hour away from the Italian coast...
...copilot, Flight Officer Stanley B. Farley Jr., lifted the pilot off the controls and pulled the plane out of a spin. The gunners were all wounded, but they crawled forward and dragged the pilot's body out of Farley's way. He had never landed a B26, a plane so "hot" on landing that many experienced pilots do not like to fly it. But Farley brought his B-26 in gently, drifting it in just fast enough to keep it from stalling. Afterward he said: "We all walked away, all that could walk after that flak. I guess...