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...some 18,000 feet, the Jap planes looked like tiny match sticks. They dived for the Yorktown's heart. Every gun of the carrier and her escort began to blaze. Tiny planes hesitated in their dives, made brief flowers of flame, fell into the sea. But a few kept coming at the Yorktown. The bombs slashed through the decks, started fires over the fuel tanks and magazines. Life rafts, splintered boxes, wrecked planes showered about the ship...
...provide for every ship and base fuel, food, shells, radios, detecting equipment, chewing gum, bosun's pipes-everything for existence, everything for fighting. (To insure deliveries Calhoun commands fighting ships assigned to escort convoys...
They Sing for Themselves. After 40 hours on Makin Island Colonel Carlson, Major Roosevelt and their men returned to Honolulu last week with their naval escort...
...Lille and Lens areas. U.S. Flying Fortresses made their seventh continental raid, proving the U.S. thesis that the high-speed, high-flying B-17s can be used in daylight raids where accuracy is greater than at night. Not a B-17 had been lost, with or without fighter escort...
...there was no proof that the U.S.'s high-flying bomber carried its own protection against German pursuit, for British pilots in Spitfires went along, gave the Fortresses an adept and able defense. But in the sixth raid nine Fortresses went out beyond the range of their fighter escort, plowed on alone over the North...