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...Enlisted WACs and officers of the Fifteenth Air Force, denied the right to mingle unless engaged, filed 14 applications for betrothal. Told that the announcement would be sent to home-town papers, 13 withdrew application...
Tough Partisan soldiers could well toss their red-starred caps into the air and cheer for the white-starred bombers of Major General Nathan F. ("Nate") Twining's Fifteenth U.S. Air Force. The far-ranging Fortresses and Liberators were hitting within a wide arc all the way from Vienna down to Bucharest, and Nazi targets in occupied Yugoslavia were catching their share...
Bombs for Everybody. Twice within a week the Fifteenth attacked the important railway center of Zagreb; other attacks centered on the port of Spalato (Split) and the inland town of Brod, headquarters of a Nazi tank corps. But these jobs were only part of a busy week's work for the Fifteenth Air Force...
...contribution to the massive and continuing assault upon Germany's air power, the Fifteenth sent more than 500 bombers to hit three Messerschmitt aircraft plants near Vienna. Three days later it launched another fleet of nearly 1,000 bombers and fighters, this time to throw a double punch at Nazi communications in Bucharest and Ploesti. This week the heavy bombers carried on with a smash at airdromes and railyards in Belgrade and Sofia, and struck at the Rumanian industrial city of Brasov, barely 100 miles from the Red Army front in Rumania. The Fifteenth was actually fighting in support...
...days' rest, he dropped in to see General H. H. Arnold. "How do you feel?" asked Hap. Twining admitted he was a bit tired. Said Arnold: "You don't look a damn bit tired to me. Report in Italy Jan. 1 and take over the Fifteenth Air Force." Twining moved on. Between Dec. 14 and Jan. 1 he traveled 17,000 miles. But it was worth it. In power his new Fifteenth is second only to the Eighth Air Force in England...