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...crews took pains to make it a precision job. The big craft were over the city for an hour and a half. As at Palembang, bombermen reported antiaircraft fire and fighter opposition "weak to moderate." Losses for both attacks: three B-29s missing...
Looking back, some of the firmest strategic bombermen believe that 600 heavy bombers, in April 1943, would have enabled the Eighth Air Force to cripple German industry before the Nazis could rearrange their defenses...
...handsomest Chinese fighter pilot in the European Theater of Operations" is what slight, Hawaiian-born Lieut. Kong calls himself (he is the only one; there are a few Chinese-American bombermen). He got into flying by way of the Corps of Engineers, for which he worked as a chem ist after he finished the University of Hawaii. Between missions he tries to teach other pilots Hawaiian without nota ble success. They cannot even learn to say "Hemakana Hewahewa Okalani Yim," which is his niece Shirley's Hawaiian name...
What Price? The bombermen who saw the beginning of the combat lost sight of the Mustang in a dive. It seemed little better than a 1-in-100 chance that such gallantry could have survived such odds. But Eighth Air Force intelligence officers found that the odds had been cheated. Last week they identified the Mustang pilot as Major James H. Howard, of St. Louis. What was more, Major Howard had landed at his British base unscratched; even his ship had emerged from the maelstrom of Messerschmitts with nothing worse than one bullet hole in the wing...
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