Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quickly left again, this time for Sicily, where he met General Eisenhower's staff and the second general sent out by Marshal Badoglio. Presumably in Palermo, the parleys entered their final phase. In that city, on Aug. 29, American ack-ack gunners received startling orders. A Savoia-Marchetti bomber headed for the airfield was not to be fired on. The big plane slid down, and two Italian officers stepped out. On the 30th it took off again, escorted by three U.S. Lightnings. On the 31st it was back again and the same officers deplaned...
Fortresses, medium bombers and fighter bombers meantime attacked Nazi ports, railways, airdromes and aircraft maintenance centers in France and the Lowlands harder and more often than ever before. Then, on the climactic night, the R.A.F. Bomber Command suddenly diverted fleets of its far-ranging heavy bombers from Germany to the Channel coast. They hit Boulogne, a port on the hump of northern France nearest to Britain, one of the logical invasion routes...
...Major General Davenport Johnson, a heavy-bomber man, became commander of the Eleventh Air Force (Alaska...
...bomber, on a routine training flight, crashed at 4:30 p.m., three miles east of the base. It is believed the entire crew of ten was killed. The plane was completely destroyed by fire. . . . Names of casualties are withheld until next of kin can be notified." So announced Gowan Field, Idaho...
...Said British Air Chief Marshal Sir Philip Joubert de la Ferte: "It almost looks as though the Fortress type of bomber has defeated the contemporary fighter. ... A new solution to the problem of defense will have to be found...