Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From China and from the Marianas, B-29s were keeping Formosa, Kyushu and Honshu under attack. Their performance was getting better. The 21st Bomber Command (Saipan and Guam) struck at a tempting target, the Kawasaki aircraft factory near Kobe, where the Japs made the new twin-engined fighter known as "Nick." Returning pilots, with photographs to back them, reported 315 hits in the target area, and the plant out of operation for months...
...before this crisis, slim, restless Major General Hoyt Sanford Vandenberg, commander of the U.S. Ninth Air Force, had popped into the headquarters of 40-year-old Major General Elwood Ricardo Quesada, head of one of the Ninth's chief components-the IX Tactical Air Command, whose fighter bombers were stationed back of the First Army. "Van" Vandenberg and "Pete" Quesada went over reports, decided that this was the real thing. The immediate task was to muster every fighter bomber into attacks, to impede Rundstedt's armored spearheads. Generals Van and Pete faced hard facts: 1) at many places...
...loose, the Ninth might turn in a classic of tactical air war. But the man who had speeded it into action was no longer commander of all of it. The German bulge had split Hoyt Vandenberg's rule over it. Two of his three fighter-bomber components-Quesada's and Brigadier General Richard E. Nugent's-had been shifted at least temporarily from Vandenberg's to "Mary" Coningham's command. The switch was a part of the realignment by which Field Marshal Montgomery had taken over command of the U.S. First and Ninth Armies, with...
...Vandenberg still had a big outfit and able sub-commanders. The XIX Tactical Air Command, headed by quiet, efficient Brigadier General Otto P. ("Opie") Weyland (rhymes with island) was Vandenberg's link to the battlefields of Lieut. General George S. Patton's Third Army. Vandenberg's bomber outfit was a whopper, headed by Brigadier General Samuel E. Anderson, whose Marauders and Havocs had played a big part in pushing the German airfields back from the Atlantic in advance of Dday...
...World War II's five years he has come up from major to major general, has won a string of decorations. He has got around-as a sort of Air Forces diplomat. He got along with the Russians, helped persuade them to give the Allies bomber bases. He got along with the British as Eisenhower's deputy air commander in London (the British refer to his tactical planning as "outstanding"). He was at the Quebec, Cairo and Teheran conferences...