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Other air-front news: > Against the Fortress and Liberator formations, the Germans are trying new defensive tactics. Three planes abreast, coming head on, swing from left to right to avoid the frontal guns of the U.S. formations. It has not worked. > The Germans revealed hitherto unpublished information on U.S. tactics...
Not until after the war came along did Ted get a chance to outshine his older brothers. Then he blossomed as commander of "Ted's Traveling Circus," a hard-riding Liberator bomber outfit that moves fast and far, taking on tough special jobs all the way from England to...
Magic Carpet. In a four-motor Liberator-type transport, the junketing Senators flew to the British Isles, to Casablanca, to Marrakech, Cairo, Basra and Calcutta, to Chungking (where they met China's Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek), to Australia, Guadalcanal (three days), and homeward via New Caledonia, the Fiji Islands...
Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flew back to base with reports of heavily gunned U-boats which had elected to stay on the surface and slug it out when Liberators pounced on them. One Liberator limped home with one of her four motors knocked out, flak holes in her wings...
Liberator (Consolidated B-24). Newer than the eight-year-old Fortress, the 6-24 has the same characteristics. Possibly a shade less rugged under enemy gunfire than the Fortress, the 6-24 is slightly faster, has more range, recently had its fighting potency increased by addition of a nose turret...