Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Much of the material supplied by Britain to U.S. troops in the war theaters was strategic items whose real military value could hardly be measured in cash-e.g., heated flying suits which enabled U.S. bomber crews to carry on at high altitudes, a superior gun sight, aerial photography equipment...
...Thus the full value of British reverse Lend-Lease may never be known. British aid to U.S. troops consists of millions of large & small transfers made right on the battlefield or at the bomber base, things immeasurable in cash...
...enemy. The pattern began with a feint at France, in the form of Marauder and Spitfire attacks on airfields at Tricque-ville and St. André-de-1'Eure. This sucked fighters away from the Lowlands in time for 550 Fortresses and Liberators-the largest U.S. heavy bomber force ever used-to cut for Wilhelm shaven with upwards of 1,200 tons of bombs. With that huge force were U.S. fighter types which made the escort possible-450 Thunderbolts and long-range Lightnings, all carrying belly tanks. As this mass attack returned and German fighters settled again on Lowlands...
...that terrible day only 26 bombers and five fighters were lost. In the heavy Wilhelmshaven raid only five of 550 bombers did not return. Two days later another coordinated series of punches, climaxed by another massive Fortress-Liberator raid on the synthetic oil center of Gelsenkirchen, cost the Allies only ten heavies, two Marauders and five fighters. Again two days later a somewhat smaller raid on Düren, coordinated with diversionary attacks, was accomplished without the loss of a single bomber...
...Thomas Dudley ("Tom") Harmon, 24, Michigan's onetime All-America halfback; since Oct. 30; over China. His promotion to first lieutenant came one day after he failed to return from an attack on the Yangtse River port of Kiu-kiang. Last April he bailed out of his Army bomber "Old 98" over the jungles of French Guiana (he was the plane's only survivor), last August brought down a Jap Zero over Hong Kong...