Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three hours, Radio Berlin kept it up: paratroopers landed near the Seine estuary; the harbor of Le Havre shelled; Calais and Dunkirk raided by strong bomber formations. Every new flash brought the probability nearer. But most of the U.S. slept...
...Messerschmitts jumped the B-24 Liberator bomber on its way to raid the Piacenza airport in northern Italy. The Lib got away and started its target run, but the hydraulic system had been shot to bits, the fluid had frozen over the bomb-bay mechanism. The doors wouldn't open...
...over, Lieut. H. P. began to have muscular cramps. His skin crawled, and he was sick. A Fortress navigator, H. P. said nothing about this to the other men in the crew. But one day on a training flight he vomited; the pilot whirled the bomber back to base immediately...
...total air personnel was disabled. The Air Force medicos learned that enlisted men are less susceptible than officers -because officers, on the whole, have livelier imaginations. A high incidence of mental disturbance might have been expected among tail gunners, for at that time enemy fighters habitually attacked bomber formations from the rear, and tailgunner casualties were high. But tail gunners generally were sound, cheerful and proud: the position carried prestige and there was competition...
...Germany's Lieut. Leopold Munster, who dove into an Allied bomber when his ammunition ran out, was killed. Berlin claimed this as his 95th victory...