Word: liberatore
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Pop improvised with bombers. In April he and his Liberator crew spotted an enemy fleet gathering in Rabaul harbor, gave a warning that enabled the U.S. Navy to intercept and smash the Japs' task forces in the Battle of the Coral Sea.
The bombing mission was long and risky: a 2,100-mile flight to hit the Jap-held nickel port of Pombelaa on Buton Island. Eleven men rode to battle in the big 6-24 Liberator bomber "Golden Gator," but only four lived to see their North Australian base again. Navigator...
Ben Kuroki is a technical sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Forces, a qualified turret gunner in B-24 Liberator bombers, veteran of 30 heavy bombing missions against the enemy, survivor of the ruthless, costly raid on the Ploesti oilfields of Rumania, winner of two Distinguished Flying Crosses, wearer of...
Then he got his first break: assignment as communications clerk in one of four Liberator squadrons in Brigadier General Ted Timberlake's group, now famed as "Ted's Flying Circus" (TIME, Oct. 18). Ben kept his fingers crossed, never even went to nearby Shreveport for fear of getting...
But the B-29 has a newfangled substitute for the drafty, buffeting waist positions from which Fortress and Liberator gunners fire at enemy planes. It has side turrets operated by remote control.