Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this means a kind of hell for the bomber crews which the bare loss figures do not convey: old friends suddenly gone from the Red Cross snack bars, destruction and blood and death in many of the planes which limp home. It definitely does not mean that U.S. daylight bombing is to be abandoned or diminished, but it does mean that the price of such bombing must be high until the Eighth Air Force finds an answer to the Nazi fighter system...
Trickle to Stream. One answer is to increase the number of bombers in each raid, thus reducing the proportion of enemy fighters to each bomber. The U.S. until recently has had very few big bombers in England, and American bombing operations have been on a small scale as compared to the massed night raids of the R.A.F. But the U.S. force is steadily increasing: correspondents last week were allowed to report the arrival of bombers and fighters in impressive numbers...
Near Iceland, the big B-24 Liberator bomber bored through dark and dirty weather. A British base had radioed a warning: weather bad. From the bomber came the laconic reply: "Continuing...
...bomber's 14 other occupants had been killed. Among them was one of the Army's highest and most respected officers, Lieut. General Frank Maxwell Andrews, 59, commander of all U.S. forces in the European theater of operations...
...battle; both are written by trained, ob servant storytellers. "Flying Officer X" is H. E. Bates, one of Britain's most talented short-story writers (The Poacher, My Uncle Silas). His sketches of life in the R.A.F. are the result of an assignment to Britain's Bomber Command. C. S. Forester (Captain Horatio Hornblower, Riflleman Dodd and The Gun, TIME, March 29), the British Navy's most passionate booster, spent several weeks on a British warship before sitting down to write his story...