Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fifty Tons a Minute. So far, the R.A.F. can claim the lion's share of damage done to Germany. Last week Air Vice Marshal R. H. M. S. Saundby, Deputy Chief of the Bomber Command, supported the claim with figures. Said he: One-fourth of the area in German cities attacked by the R.A.F. since May 11, 1940 has been devastated. In the ruins of Hamburg, Düsseldorf and Cologne "civilized life ... is no longer possible." Seventeen major cities in northwest Germany are "liabilities . . . to the enemy war machine." Six others need only one more good pasting...
Cause of the third alert: C (for Charlie) 2, a lone Lancaster bomber, lost in dense clouds, shoved around by tricky winds, arrived after the rest of the R.A.F. had gone home. Untouched, C2 got bombs away, headed for England...
Married. Frances Rose Shore (synco-patress "Dinah Shore"), 26; and Signal Corps Corporal George Montgomery, 27, peacetime cinemactor (Bomber's Moon), onetime Montana cowboy; each for the first time; in Las Vegas...
...Eglin Field, an old B18 staggered in midair. Flame belched from its nose, and the plane slowed perceptibly. There was a loud report; the plane flew on. That experiment in aerial gunnery took place four years ago. Last summer, in the South Pacific, the Japs saw a new Mitchell bomber (B25) that also belched flame with frightening results. Last week the Army Air Forces confirmed what the enemy well knew: the U.S. had aircraft which carried a full-sized cannon...
Colonel Joseph B. Wells had to shout to TIME Correspondent Theodore H. White; thunderous twin engines were driving their B-25 bomber over the turbulent waters of the South China Sea. Wells pointed a finger at Shinchiku airdrome on Formosa, one of Japan's great nests of air power and transshipment centers. The only newspaperman to accompany "the most dangerous mission ever attempted by fighters and bombers of the Fourteenth Air Force" White cabled: "Surprise and good navigation were vital to success. The mission was to be at almost suicidal level-even five minutes warning would give the Zeros...