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...Better Way. Up to last week, the daylight bombers had depended mainly on their own fire power for defense. But the U.S. Eighth Air Force worked out new tactics. Last week it tried them and found them good. They involved a combination of two principles: fighter escort all the way to the target, coordination with a whole pattern of associated attacks...
...Eure. This sucked fighters away from the Lowlands in time for 550 Fortresses and Liberators-the largest U.S. heavy bomber force ever used-to cut for Wilhelm shaven with upwards of 1,200 tons of bombs. With that huge force were U.S. fighter types which made the escort possible-450 Thunderbolts and long-range Lightnings, all carrying belly tanks. As this mass attack returned and German fighters settled again on Lowlands fields, Marauders hit them there-at Schiphol near Amsterdam...
Patched up at Pearl Harbor, she limped to Mare Island, Calif, for permanent repairs. With new men aboard, she sailed for the South Pacific, trained incessantly at the job her men prized most-gunnery. She made two runs to Guadalcanal, served as escort for the carrier Hornet, then joined the task force which included the Wasp. The Helena was there when the Wasp was torpedoed, took aboard many of the survivors...
With the three silver stars of a lieutenant general glittering on his shoulders, Eaker drove to Buckingham Palace, flanked by a young aide and an Air Ministry official. In an anteroom the escort stood aside while the General was ushered alone into His Majesty's study. Forty-five minutes later General Eaker emerged, possessor of one of Britain's highest military honors, Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (Military Division). If Ira Eaker were a British subject he would have been invested as a knight, becoming Sir Ira; since he is as American...
...Escort Missions. Hellcats went looking for trouble in the Marcus Island raid Sept. 1, but ran into no opposition. They found it at Wake and in bomber-escort missions in the Solomons area...