Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth Air Force in England is calling for an anachronism. Its bomber crews want body armor. Reason: it has been proved by battle test that mail shirts and steel helmets save air crews' lives...
...Jimmy Thach has had enough of the beach for a while. He wants to get out to battle, update tactics once again, because he thinks that in battle experience counts for more than youth. (Flatley is 36, O'Hare 28. the Navy's famed dive-bomber Gus Widhelm...
...barren place. Its main building is a grass-roofed, gravel-floored operations hut, where crews are briefed before their combat missions and interviewed when they return. A stilt-legged control tower stands near the upper end, from which take-off and landing signals are blinked to the bomber crews. There are no hangars; planes are serviced, bombed up and repaired in revetments around the field, built up with 20-ft. walls as a protection against bomb blasts. Beyond the flight strip, on both sides, are low, scrub-covered hills...
Meanwhile the Strategic Air Force under Major General Jimmy Doolittle, also set up by Eisenhower's order of Feb. 18, was ranging farther, throwing its heavy bomber and escort fighters against the island bases of the Mediterranean...
...English sword maker agreed to make the mail. In World War I he had developed a suit of light strips of flexible steel, held together and covered by canvas. Before designing the airman's armor, movements of a bomber crew at 20,000 feet were studied. The suit was designed for complete freedom of action, can be shed fast for a quick bailout...