Word: liberatore
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For Coastal Command airmen, whose patrols are usually long, monotonous and unsung grinds, the battle was both a relief and a triumph. In four days, Coastal Command planes attacked 19 times, dropped hundreds of depth charges. One Liberator captain saw six submarines, attacked three within an hour. Another saw eight...
But one day a U.S. Liberator bomber came over, flying tree high. "We ran and got the biggest mirror in camp," said Bordner. "It was about six inches square. We flashed it for all we were worth. By the grace of God, somebody saw it."
The break that weather-bound U.S. pilots in the Aleutians had been praying for-some action-came last week. Up from steel-mat runways as far westward as the Andreanof Island group rose Liberator heavy bombers, Mitchell mediums and Lightning fighters, joyfully heading toward Kiska. On the first day they...
The big, weather-beaten Liberator bomber which had taken Winston Churchill to Moscow, Casablanca and Turkey eased down on Washington's airport last week, bringing Britain's handsome, faultlessly groomed Robert Anthony Eden on his second visit to the U.S. The first time, in 1938, he was temporarily...
A storm was rising over New Guinea. One day last week, through a cloud slit in the turbulent sky, a heavy-bellied Liberator (6-24) spied something to break the monotony of its patrol: 14 leaden ships upon a leaden ocean.