Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week Allied planes cruised over Germany, meeting only moderate air resistance. On Wednesday 2,000 attackers met almost no resistance at all, and a U.S. air task force hit Brunswick through heavy cloud cover without losing a bomber...
Solid Battle. But on Saturday, when 2,000 U.S. bombers and fighters struck at Berlin, the Luftwaffe reaction was different. Hundreds of fighters rose to the attack, in air combats as bitter as any the war had seen. Eighty-eight Nazi ships were shot down; 63 U.S. bombers and 14 fighters were lost. From that raid Lieut. John M. Gibbons, of Jefferson City, Mo., returned with one of the strange stories of the war: his bomber, the lone survivor of its formation, had nearly been knocked down by a dead enemy. Eighty German fighters had attacked straight into Gibbons...
...Heaton, an able small-town lawyer and choice of the Democratic bosses, would lose the Democratic nomination. Yet last week when the primary votes were counted, Pat Heaton was 344 votes behind George W. Olsen, a baggy-clothed 62-year-old cafeteria bus boy at Omaha's Martin bomber plant, and an absolute political unknown. Sole reason for George Olsen's triumph: his Scandinavian name...
...Sign of the Cross, Cecil De Mille's 1932 religiopus, is being recut and updated with a new prologue for release in early summer. It deals with the persecution of the Christians under Nero, the burning of Rome. The prologue: a U.S. bomber is on its way to Rome; the rest of the film, in flashback, offers historical vindication...
Iron Mike. On a raid over Germany a B-24 Liberator was so badly hit by flak that the crew bailed out. Then the empty, staggering bomber perked up, flew a straight and level course for 150 miles, finally crashed off the English coast barely ten miles from her home base...