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...attacks on: 1) enemy planes; 2) airdromes and supply lines in Rommel's immediate rear. British pilots, many of them in U.S. planes, raised hob with such targets. But that was not enough. At the pinch Rommel still had enough tanks, guns and supplies. And he had the dive-bombers to crack Bir Hacheim, Tobruk and Matr...
...tired soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 8th Quartermaster Training Regiment were sleeping soundly. A soft north-northeast breeze fanned the damp air; the lonely flashlight of a patrolling officer threaded the dark Virginia night; somewhere a mongrel pup howled plaintively. Suddenly came the long, heart-chilling shriek of dive-bombers, the rattle of machine guns, the dull, stomach-curdling thud of high explosives. Over the camp rolled clouds of black, evil-smelling smoke. Up went a cry: "Gas! Gas! Gaaaasss!" Out of their tiny olive-green tents tumbled soldiers, stuffing heads into gas masks, grabbing at pants...
...cannot handle the business. This would give the U.S. a total of about 85 good-sized carriers. (A few guessers think that the new carriers will include some of very small tonnage, for fighters only. They would act as scouts and defenders, to protect the big carriers bearing the dive- and torpedo-bombers. If such small carriers are built, the total number of carriers will be greater...
...destructive as a large-caliber shell, are slung from the underside of the wings, aimed by pointing planes directly at their targets. Self-propelled, the rockets trail a stream of sparks like the tail of a comet. In London some experts predicted that rocket bombs may soon make dive-bombing obsolete. Reasons: 1) the new weapon's high potential accuracy, which enables planes to bomb with greater success from greater heights; 2) its greater penetrating power-the push of the rocket stream is added to the momentum given to the bomb by the onrushing plane...
Next morning, Colonel Sweeney's bombers were in the air, headed for what they thought was the main Japanese fleet, when Navy patrols spotted the advance Japanese forces only 125 miles west of Midway. The Japs were then hit with everything Midway could throw at them. Marine Corps dive-bombers struck the leading cruisers and destroyers. Colonel Sweeney's heavy bombers went for the carriers, left one blazing. Four converted bombers, the first Army torpedo-planes ever recorded in action, hit the other carriers. Cried one of the pilots, "Boy, if Mother could...