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...quarter] around the factories working for Germany, we recommend [that they] evacuate their homes. . . . The objectives which are liable to be attacked by our bombers are all factories making or repairing planes, tanks, vehicles, locomotives, firearms or chemical products." Two days later, with 500 Allied fighters as an escort, 115 U.S. bombers thundered over Lille...
...fire, said they saw smoke rising 2.000 feet into the sky of France. The bombers had not only held at arm's length the best fighter planes Germany has, but they had felled at least 48, probably destroyed 38 more and damaged 19, while the" Allied fighter escort accounted for five.* The figures were so incredible that the Bomber Command withheld them until they were triple-checked. They added up to little less than a revolution in aerial warfare...
...curious statistic, explained by the fact that Axis planes avoided the 500 Allied fighters concentrated on the bombers, and by the fact that the bombers got seperated from their escort in bad weather. None of the Allied fighters was destroyed...
...addition, the bill gives the Navy the right to enter into contracts amounting to $9,500,000,000 for vessels authorized last July: 500,000 tons of aircraft carriers, 500,000 tons of cruisers, 900,000 tons of destroyers and destroyer escort craft, 200,000 tons of auxiliary vessels (some to be bought and converted), 1,000 small craft...
...Abandon Ship." "I can't bear to look at her," said a young ensign, 'watching from an escort. He turned his face and walked away. Slowly the York town turned on her side. Two planes clung like beetles to her slanting deck. "My God, she's going to capsize," an officer said, almost in a whisper. Then up went the blue & white flag: "Abandon ship...