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...carrier Hornet in the Western Pacific, and provided air cover for the task force's final approach to the Japanese mainland. Hornet had her flight deck cluttered with Doolittle's big B-25 bombers, and would have been unable to get her fighter planes up to fend off a sudden enemy air attack...
...first blow struck. Ziemer swears he did nothing but fend off his assailant. Alcott says: "I took him." A studio guard intervened, ordered Alcott outside and locked the door. Through the door Ziemer understood Alcott to say: "You're a German spy." "That wasn't what I said at all," said Alcott. "I said that sometimes he sounded like a Nazi...
Bombers learned the same hard way. Gunners in Liberators and Fortresses had to be better, are now being trained more closely. Bombardiers had to learn that a moving ship is hard to hit from high altitudes. New tactics had to be devised to fend off enemy fighters. Practice taught pilots and their generals what theory could not teach...
...more and better information for the U.S. people, but the Government's failure to report the bombing of Japan makes good sense. There is every reason to believe that the Japs have been guessing long and hard where the raid came from-and how to fend off another. As long as they are kept guessing, silence pays...
...second-hand steel oil drums. After the eastern ports were lost, the oil moved down the Burma Road, under constant bombardment. The last consignments shoved off from Rangoon under a shower of bombs, shortly before the advancing Japanese captured the city in March- leaving the U.S. hereafter to fend for tung itself...