Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied ground troops had watched the great bomber fleets roar out from England night & day, had exulted over 1,000-plane assaults and 3,500-ton bomb loads...
Missing. Lieut. General Millard Fillmore ("Miff") Harmon, 57, studious, unstarched commander of Army Air Forces, Pacific; in a converted Liberator bomber; en route from a forward Pacific base to Hawaii. His ability and knack at coordinating Army, Navy and Marine forces prompted Admiral Halsey to call him "Rock of Gibraltar." Successor: his deputy, rugged Major General Willis Henry Hale...
Some units crossed the island in mid-afternoon and overran the southern extremity of the No. 1 Airfield (the bomber base), but others were thrown back. Five tanks actually got on the airfield; three of them were quickly knocked out and the other two had to return. Our trouble was that the Japs had us covered from both ends of the island. Our men could only advance and die, paving with their bodies a way for the others...
...Paris, and U.S. airmen had gone to Moscow. Now London disclosed that Sir Arthur Tedder-Eisenhower's brilliant deputy commander and one of the world's great air strategists -had also gone to Moscow, to organize "close liaison between the advancing Russian armies and British and American bomber forces in the west." Said Eisenhower: "The Russians have furnished me with all the information I needed to know, and have done so cheerfully and willingly...
Captain W. C. Kulesz, of A.T.S.C.'s aeromedical laboratory at Wright Field, had a bright idea: why not use an ordinary portable oxygen cylinder and mask, such as bomber crews wear in high-altitude flight? The captain promptly donned a mask, jumped into a swimming pool. It worked. Further tests showed that with such a mask a man could breathe for 6 minutes at 10 ft. under water, for 3½ minutes at 50 ft. Normally this should give a man, unless he is too badly injured, time to break out of a plane cabin or turret...