Word: liberatore
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General Sanders. At 28, Richard C. Sanders is the youngest general officer in the U.S. Army and probably the youngest since Custer, who got his star at 24. World War I was already well under way when Sanders was born (in Salt Lake City), and less than two months before...
Six Messerschmitts jumped the B-24 Liberator bomber on its way to raid the Piacenza airport in northern Italy. The Lib got away and started its target run, but the hydraulic system had been shot to bits, the fluid had frozen over the bomb-bay mechanism. The doors wouldn'...
It was a formidable array of Red generalship that faced the Germans: Konev, Malinovsky and Zhukov in the south; Rokossovsky and Bagramian further north; Popov, Meretskov and the liberator of Leningrad, Leonid Govorov, poised for attack on the Baltic countries.
The B-24 Liberator, Sweating it Out, was doing just that. Over the European target it had taken such a beating from flak that its bombs jammed and would not drop. Now it was limping home, crossing the Channel, with all four engines damaged and the hydraulic system shot to...
¶ Some 5,000 miles north of Truk, Aleutian-based Navy Ventura bombers attacked several points in the Kurile Islands. One Liberator went all the way to Shimushiri Island, only 400 miles north of Japan proper. Radio Tokyo announced this week that a U.S. carrier force had bombed Marcus Island...