Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Planes Over Japan. Army Air Forces are already withdrawing some of their bomber crews from ETO and retraining them in the U.S. to fly the planes which will operate against Japan. These planes are coming off the line so fast that the A.A.F. has run out of new crews to man them. Fortress and Liberator crews are learning how to fly and fight the Superforts; Mitchell and Marauder crews are being taught to fly the Army's new. powerful attack-bomber, the Douglas...
...Anglo-U.S. heavy bomber forces searched the remnants of the Reich for targets last week, and found moderately good hunting: rail yards, airfields, oil and ordnance depots, an explosives plant, shipyards and shipping, U-boat pens. One day when U.S. Eighth Air Force bombers and fighters attacked airfields in the Berlin area, the Luftwaffe reacted violently, sending up the biggest swarms of jet planes the Americans had ever seen. All over the blue sky, twisting white vapor trails mingled with the black streaks of burning, falling planes...
...noon on Friday, heavy U.S. ships were pounding Japanese-held sections of Okinawa's shore when the red-balled planes flashed in to attack. From a small landing boat TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod watched a twin-engined Jap bomber sneak over a hillside and head into the fleet, apparently picking out a transport near Sherrod's craft as its intended victim. Sherrod radioed...
...plan is for CBS's jumper to leap from a bomber during the first phase of the entry into Berlin, before any other newscasters are allowed to land by plane. He will broadcast from a German station if one is still in operation; if not, probably from a 60,000-watt mobile transmitter which the Army packs on 17 trucks. All U.S. networks will carry his historic broadcast...
Sergeant Joe Louis, who left the prizefight ring in 1942 as undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, returned from an overseas tour with plans for his future. The Brown Bomber declared he would go back to boxing after the war, to defend his title "at least once...