Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Early this year White lived for months with General Claire Chennault's bomber pilots-flew with them on mission after bombing mission all over South China. In fact, he went along on so many of those raids that our worried Editor had to cable him please just to go on the most important ones-and save his hide for TIME'S readers...
...bombs on the island. On the 18th day of attack more bombs were dropped than had been loosed on Tunisia, Sicily, Sardinia and the Italian mainland during the entire month of April. On that day, while Allied fighters sent at least 37 Axis planes screaming into the sea, Allied bomber traffic was so heavy that pilots had to circle about, trying to keep out of each other's way while waiting their turn to sight their targets...
...From a bomber base of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Britain, TIME Correspondent William Walton last week sent this description of the weather-bound bomber crews. What he saw on this U.S. airdrome was duplicated on the airfields of the R.A.F.'s big night bombers. There, too, the pilots and crews were killing time in barracks and canteens, while outside the big, black Stirlings and Lancasters gleamed wet on the runways. Over the Dover Strait, on the route to Germany, the fog lay thick and grey. At 10,000 feet, the operational altitude for the big planes...
...Battles. But it was not only the weather that was keeping the heavy bomber forces of the Allies on the ground. Both the U.S. Eighth Air Force and the R.A.F. were gathering strength for new blows in the systematic reduction of German industry and defenses. Said Major General Ira C. Eaker, the Eighth's commander: Since March the Eighth has more than doubled its strength (mostly in heavy bombers for the strategic bombing of Germany), is now increasing at the rate of 15 to 30% each month. The day after General Eaker spoke, the lull ended. More than...
Such results gave bomber crews grounds for hope that body armor might soon be standard. They also made Flight Surgeon Grow an airman's hero. Said he: ". . . If was better to do something about it now instead of reading papers about it to medical societies after...