Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Attrition Above. It was clear that the Luftwaffe had again increased its fighter defenses in western Europe. Allied losses went up. In eight days the R.A.F. and the U.S. Air Forces lost 185 heavy bombers. Down with them went hundreds of highly trained pilots and crewmen. Back with the surviving formations went many a damaged bomber, many a wounded airman, many a tough task for the commanders and ground crews who had to bring the battered squadrons back up to strength...
...accuracy famed in an outfit noted for its shooting, once he took up mortars. On Guadal he boasted he could lob a shell down a chimney, and did. When a Jap cruiser closed in to shore, Lou lobbed a few shells at it (like firing bee-bees at a bomber), explained, "I wanted to check my azimuth and it's just right." Many a mortar crew in the Solomons was Diamond-polished...
...name was carried down through father and son to his great-grandson, Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Last week, in a curt communique, the Army announced that Brigadier General Forrest was missing from a raid over Kiel. When last seen, his bomber was spiraling down, still under control, but with one motor smoking and its tail half shot off. Eight parachutes were seen to drop from it; one might have been General Forrest's. If he was not among those saved a great name had died out, for 38-year-old General Forrest...
...April 1942, he was on a tour of defense plants, when he decided to be a war correspondent. He wired the Times, asked if it would pay his daily living expenses if he could get a free bomber ride to the Middle East. The Times wired him $1,500 and its blessing. Treanor invested $1,250 in a Pan American Airways ticket, arrived in Cairo as Nazi Marshal Rommel approached Alexandria...
Then he nosed around a rear R.A.F. base, finally wangled a free bomber ride to Malta, then to Gibraltar. On the way back to Egypt, he saw the bombing of Navarino Bay. The British P.R.O.s were furious, forbade him to ride in combat planes...