Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their 6-26 medium bomber, eight men aboard, set out last May to bomb Jap-held Rabaul. "We dropped our bombs on the runway and machine-gunned two bombers on the ground," said 2nd Lieut. Eugene D. Wallace of Los Angeles, the plane's copilot. "Antiaircraft fire was awfully heavy and ... we were hit. . . . The pilot said we would have to make a crash landing...
...Harbor, Hollywood has been trying to turn out a good war picture. At last something has come. "Air Force" is a fine film about a group of flyers and their plane. Something like the group of "In Which We Serve," the story centers around an implement of war--a bomber...
Giraud's Present. In North Africa Giraud holds labored French-English telephone conversations with Eisenhower, whom he considers "a fine man." He hates desk work, bats around whenever possible in a U.S. twin-motored bomber. He runs himself on a Spartan 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. schedule, last week treated himself to a trip to the Tunisian front...
...weather-beaten Liberator bomber which had taken Winston Churchill to Moscow, Casablanca and Turkey eased down on Washington's airport last week, bringing Britain's handsome, faultlessly groomed Robert Anthony Eden on his second visit to the U.S. The first time, in 1938, he was temporarily out of public life in protest against Chamberlain appeasement-he came to make little speeches, lay wreaths and inspect CCC camps. This time, as Britain's Foreign Secretary, Leader of the House of Commons and Churchill's heir-presumptive, he came on urgent and secret business...
...fifth of Germany's Luftwaffe was concentrated in the area, almost the entire Italian air force. German veterans from France and Russia appeared. P-38 pilots developed a "Messerschmitt twitch," a nervous glance back over the shoulder. Axis anti-aircraft fire intensified, caught many an unlucky medium bomber before the high command realized that these planes were better suited to sweeps against shipping...