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...Balkans. From Italian airfields, Fortresses and Liberators of Major General Nathan F. Twining's Fifteenth Air Force flew in even-closer support of the Russians' battle for the Balkans. On six separate raids as many as 500 bombers (finally with adequate fighter protection) struck at Nazi communication centers, some within 200 miles of Hitler's Balkan defense line...
This does not include activities of the growing Fifteenth Air Force which, operating from Italy, increased all figures by about one third...
This is the fifteenth class to enter the Communications School since it was first established here in 1942. Until last year the school served as a combined indoctrination and communications school for men with no previous midshipman or Navy experience...
Swiftly through the week Allied air fleets hammered at the targets. On Monday the U.S. heavies were out again. On Tuesday they were joined by bombers of the Fifteenth Air Force, based in Italy, which flew north to strike at Regensburg, and followed the next day with a raid on Steyr. in Austria. In balanced rhythm the R.A.F. followed the Americans in smashes at Augsburg and Schweinfurt...
...Other principal U.S. air forces: Fifth, Southwest Pacific; Seventh, Central Pacific; Eighth, England (heavy bombers); Twelfth (tactical) and Fifteenth (heavy bombers), Mediterranean Theater...