Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Flying down from New Bedford, Mass., Lieut. Colonel William Franklin Smith Jr., D.F.C., Air Medal and Croix de Guerre, found LaGuardia Field all right. After he had let his two engined B-25 bomber down under a 900-ft. ceiling he radioed for permission to go on to Newark. LaGuardia approved, warned him of low visibility (about two miles), concluded, "We're unable to see the top of the Em pire State Building...
...75th floor of the Empire State Building a man heard the throbbing motors, turned quickly to the window, as he had many times before when planes passed. Coming straight at him out of the fog was a twin-engined bomber. It was banking slightly to the left...
...first full-scale raid ever made against the city, more than 200 Okinawa-based Liberators, Mitchells and Thunderbolts strafed and bombed Shanghai's harbor and airfields. No. 1 target, hit with 300 tons of explosives, was Kiangwan airdrome, containing 15 major hangars, four concrete bomber runways, and the biggest concentration of Jap planes in China. Next day the planes went back again. On neither trip were the Americans challenged by fighter opposition...
...years ago in England, Flight Officer M. W. ("Larry") Doyle, 24, an R.C.A.F. bomber pilot, was hit by his plane's whirling propeller. It gouged out a part of the motor and the sensory areas of his brain. He was rushed to a hospital and operated on in 15 minutes, mostly to stop the blood flow...
...more than 6-295 were fighting the air war against Japan. Allied Army, Navy and Marine air forces, flying every variety of heavy and medium bomber and fighter, helped beat up a 5,000-mile arc. From the Kurils, down through the home islands and the home waters, through east China and the East and South China Seas the planes ranged on missions of blockade, strategic attack and tactical support...