Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Armor. The American offensive opened with one of the greatest aerial preparations in history. The bomb carpet was laid mostly on the Saint Lô-Périers road and beyond it in an area 2,000 yards wide and 9,000 yards in depth. Nearly everything in the bomber's book went into it-from 500-pounders carried by heavies to 23-lb. fragmentations scattered by mediums and fighters-a saturation of about ten bombs to an acre...
Commissioned in the Air Forces, Jimmy Stewart spent the first two years of the war quietly, became a bomber-pilot instructor, occasionally and unostentatiously visited Hollywood. In the fall of 1943, as commander of a B-24 squadron, he arrived in England. He led his outfit on 14 missions over Europe in a bomber named "Nine Yanks and a Jerk," was several times decorated, promoted. Finally, because Jimmy Stewart had administrative brains, he was made operations officer of a bomber group. From there it was only one more step to the top spot on Ted Timberlake's staff...
...That hit us all pretty hard. About all I could say was 'Okay, Big Friend. Lots of luck to you all.' Then the pilot's own chute opened just before the bomber flipped over her wing and went streaming down in flame...
...Group Twelve, crack bomber-torpedo-fighter outfit of a famed U.S. carrier, was back in the U.S. last week after 15 months of campaigning from Pearl Harbor to Trincomalee. By their own account, there was not a hero among them...
...bomber crash near the Continental Divide in Colorado, four of the ten-man crew had been killed. Two survivors, less seriously injured, had walked 14 hours before they found help. Soon a bomber, with an Army doctor aboard, was on its way to the rocky ledge where the four injured men lay. The doctor first dropped a parachute load of supplies from the circling bomber, then jumped himself. He landed in a tree, fell 20 ft., but scrambled up unhurt. When the main rescue party arrived (by land) nearly four hours later, the patients had been fed, bandaged, drugged...