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Next day medium bombers hit Boulogne. Other formations, including Fortresses, bombed and strafed every airfield from which German planes could have taken off to repel invaders. Swarms of fighters, on escort and on independent sweeps, took and held absolute command of the sky above the coastland. Behind the coastal area, near Paris, Fortresses and escorting Thunderbolt fighters staged a great raid with a double purpose: to bomb an aircraft-engine works and to engage the only sizable force of German fighters which appeared over France that...
...their first encounters, Colonel Davis said, the 99th had two planes shot down, but got one German fighter definitely, two probables and three damaged. On every bomber escort mission his men met superior enemy forces and managed to break a little better than even. His conference finished, Colonel Davis, son of the Army's only Negro general officer, Brigadier General Benjamin O. Davis Sr., departed. His new command: the 332nd Fighter Group, to be formed of three Negro squadrons...
...zero hour the bulldozer advanced on the village and from the western sky at the same moment there swept an air escort of a single R.A.F. twin-engined Beaufighter, thus ensuring that Tommy would have his air cover against any resist ance during operations. As the bulldozer advanced into "action," the fighter dived on the village, firing a succession of Very-light (flare) cartridges. Resistance collapsed. The "enemy" surrendered and the operations were concluded...
...days and two nights, by air and sea, the U-boats were hunted and harried by the convoy escorts. The first attack was followed by another, 15 miles from the convoy. Depth charges brought oil slicks and splintered wreckage to the surface. Five more attacks were made on U-boats circling beyond torpedo range of the fat freighters. Lookouts reported no less than 20 submarines circling for the kill they could never make while planes and escort vessels crisscrossed the convoy's path...
Naval Reserve Lieut. Eddy Duchin, peacetime bandleader and silk-smooth jazz pianist, was made an antisub warfare officer aboard a vessel of the destroyer escort fleet. One of his jobs: analyzing the unmusical notes produced by a subdetector...