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Tall, Georgia-born Colonel Jack Roberts, 31-year-old Group Commander, told newsmen about his men and their work. More than half the 480th combat strength were casualties. Although outnumbered 3-to-1 in the air, the 480th knocked down two German planes for every Liberator lost. Best measure of...
In one hair-raising run, a Liberator was flying above a 200-ft. ceiling when his special equipment indicated the presence of the enemy. Instantly, the plane started down, burst out of the overcast barely above the water. Dead ahead was a big ocean-going German submarine.
Last week the A.S.C. proudly announced its own air freight line. It is, properly, the longest in the world: 14,000 miles from A.S.C. headquarters at Patterson Field (near Dayton, Ohio) to Karachi, India. A big Liberator cargo plane (C-87) made the first round-trip run in twelve days...
Captain James Stewart, out of Hollywood stardom and into a quiet Army career eight months before Pearl Harbor, is now head of a Liberator squadron in England, will probably soon be fighting over Europe-the first Hollywood star to engage in regular combat there.*Paul Wittgenstein's piano playing...
In all that terrible day only 26 bombers and five fighters were lost. In the heavy Wilhelmshaven raid only five of 550 bombers did not return. Two days later another coordinated series of punches, climaxed by another massive Fortress-Liberator raid on the synthetic oil center of Gelsenkirchen, cost the...