Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Liberator bomber came over, flying tree high. "We ran and got the biggest mirror in camp," said Bordner. "It was about six inches square. We flashed it for all we were worth. By the grace of God, somebody...
Missing in Action. Brigadier General Howard Knox Ramey, 46, commander of the 5th Air Forces' (MacArthur-Kenney's) 5th Bomber Command; somewhere in the Southwest Pacific...
This continuity of development, says Michaelis, was Britain's salvation. Germany, disarmed for ten years after World War I, suffered a vital loss in experience. And when General Göring took over the Luftwaffe in 1933 he kept bomber models of that year in mass production "in order to build up a big air force at once." Armor and armament were sacrificed for the sake of speed...
When Brigadier General Kenneth Walker's bomber failed to return from a raid at Rabaul (TIME, Jan. 18) he was the second air general to be lost in the South west Pacific...
...slim, hard-flying, 46-year-old Howard Ramey had lasted no more than a few weeks, it was as much as he must reason ably have expected when he took over the command of the Fifth Bomber Command...