Word: liberatore
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Sergeant Clyde Keeling stepeed out of a huge Liberator bomber last with a question on his lips: "What's next? Rumania and now Austria-and we are based in North Africa!"
Almost on the first clear day out of port, a Liberator had found three U-boats stalking the convoy preparing for attack. The big plane dropped its depth bombs: one submarine was considered sunk. Surface craft attacked two more, depth-charged them. From one a huge oil slick bubbled to...
This was the big target. Nearly a third of the petroleum for the Axis war machine was drawn from Ploesti. To attack it properly the Ninth U.S. Air Force, in the Middle East, built up a powerful group of Liberator bombers, its pilots and bombardiers specially trained for low-level...
In this part of the Balkans the Germans had strong air defenses. The Liberators shot down at least 51 enemy fighters, lost 20 U.S. planes over the target and eleven more on the return. Over Ploesti's 19 sq. mi. of oil derricks, refineries, storage tanks and Tracking plants...
> Surabaya, on the island of Java, was not sleeping. Lights glittered along the waterfront, indicating that the Jap was making full use of this great shipping and naval base he had torn from the Dutch. Out of the dawn swept a formation of Liberator bombers, their exhausts glowing red. For...