Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the time Allied forces occupied Bougainville and brought Rabaul within easy bomber range, it has taken an almost daily hammering from the air, was hit by almost 3,000 tons in February alone. No other Jap base in the South Pacific has absorbed such destruction. U.S. destroyers even steamed in to shell...
...rendezvous somewhere over Nazi Europe, the sleek Thunderbolts turned over their bomber-escort mission to other U.S. fighter planes and streaked for their British base. On the way they spotted a tempting enemy airfield, with planes lined up along the runway. It was too good to pass up. The flight leader, Major Walter Carl Beckham, 18-victory U.S. ace of the European Theater (TIME, Feb. 21), called four planes and roared down for a strafe...
...Nazi bomber swooped in over the Anzio beach, dropped its big radio-controlled rocket bomb, started to guide it toward the Allied supply ships below. The ships tossed up a fountain of flak, trying to explode the projectile. Suddenly the bomb slowed in midair, twisted into a crazy loop, started straight back toward its parent plane...
...pilot banked wildly to avoid it, but the radio-beam mechanism had evidently been knocked out of kilter, for the bomb swung gracefully around and again chased the aircraft. When last seen, the bomber was hightailing over the horizon, its rocket bomb hot after...
...upon reaching base. Mostly he carries people and supplies, just as he once carried a full load of medicines to earthquake victims in Chile. That was five years ago last month. Grandpappy's pilot then was burly Major Caleb V. Haynes, now a Brigadier General heading the First Bomber Command at Mitchel Field, New York, onetime boss of all of Chennault's bombers in China...