Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...island which had been only a Pan American Clipper stop before the war, five great airfields were clawed out of the hills and jungles. In & out of them flew mail, passengers, plasma, wounded. From the great asphalt acres roared the Super-forts of the 21st Bomber Command. Where Standard Oil had once maintained a few oil tanks, there were now enough facilities to hold four days' output of all the oil wells in Oklahoma...
...Airmen. Soon the Pacific command will be a full-fledged trinity. Ever since November 1944 the 21st Bomber Command, now bossed by tough, cigar-smoking Major General Curtis LeMay, has been an independent unit in the Pacific. It is a part of the Twentieth Air Force, commanded by General "Hap" Arnold and responsible only...
...21st Bomber Command had shifted to smaller cities because it had run out of primary targets. In Washington last week,* the command's good-looking, serious, young (38) chief, Major General Curtis E. LeMay, explained: "We have destroyed the five largest cities in Japan and any one of these would be a major disaster. We have done this with less than half the strength we will have in the Pacific. We have the capacity to devastate Japan and we will do so if she does not surrender. Missions of 1,000 planes will come before long...
...flight deck, went out through the ship's side and burst over the water. But the Zeke itself crashed on the after half of the carrier's deck, crowded with 34 loaded planes, ready to go. That kindled a raging fire. Then a Judy (dive bomber) dropped a 500-pounder through the flight deck, and crashed into the base of the island structure. The Bunker Hill's fight for life...
...second plane, piloted by Captain Francisco Ponce, buzzed over San Salvador. At dawn Pilot Ponce dived his Lend-Leased North American attack bomber straight at the National Police Barracks, killed six of the defenders with his ten bombs. Wounded by antiaircraft fire, he managed to fly on to the haven of a Guatemalan airfield. There he claimed that he had dropped his bombs in self-defense...