Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Long Haul. The price was not exorbitant: without bearings, the mechanized German war machine eventually would be helpless. But the cost was high enough to elicit a spate of explanation. Said the chief of the Eighth Air Force Bomber Command, Brigadier General Frederick L. Anderson: "The entire works are now inactive. ... It may be possible for the Germans eventually to restore 25% of normal productive capacity." President Roosevelt implied that the raid was worth while. The chief of the Army Air Forces, General Henry H. Arnold, said: "The Schweinfurt attack will have a definite effect on the German war economy...
...launched out upon the Soviet Union's brief and fateful course of collaboration with Nazi Germany. Five weeks before Hitler attacked the U.S.S.R., Stalin took over the Premiership from Molotov, assigned him primarily to Foreign Affairs. In May 1942 Foreign Commissar Molotov climbed into a four-motored bomber, flew west to seek friends...
...until after the war came along did Ted get a chance to outshine his older brothers. Then he blossomed as commander of "Ted's Traveling Circus," a hard-riding Liberator bomber outfit that moves fast and far, taking on tough special jobs all the way from England to the Middle East...
...Reward. The circus made one trip to Africa, later flew down again to join Pat's Ninth Air Force Bomber Command for the spectacular Ploesti oil refineries raid, the long-range thrust at Wiener-Neustadt. Ted personally led the Liberators on the Wiener-Neustadt show. When they returned to the African base, General Pat was there to greet him with a bottle of whisky for the victory toast...
...minutes the Goon rocked and shook as the Zeros came in close. To Technical Sergeant Arthur P. Benko, turret gunner in the bomber over southern China, it seemed more like 40 seconds. Twice his twin .50s jammed, but he cleared them. By fight's end, he had knocked down seven Zeros...