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Bomb targets hit included 28 factories producing aircraft parts. U.S. attacking forces had lost 359 bombers and 144 fighters ; nearly half the fighters were lost in low-level slashes to beat up German airfields...
Barents Sea, made five low-level bomb and torpedo attacks, sank four transports and three escort craft, damaged two other transports, peppered a patrol ship and an E-boat...
...transferred to Europe. Over jagged, mountainous terrain, Pop and his boys sometimes hurtled only 300 ft. above the ground, sometimes hurtled through the stratosphere, uncovering enemy secrets, with their lenses mapping Italy from the toe up. One of his pilots made six low-level missions through enemy ack-ack around Mt. Cairo, finally got the pictures the Allied commanders needed before they began their attack. Pop himself did much of the photo work on the Anzio beachhead...
Later the Mustang proved itself a magnificent low-level strafer and locomotive buster. It was fast, agile and an "honest" aircraft (i.e., with no eccentric handling traits). One P-51 set a record for ruggedness when it flew home with a yard of starboard wing shot off, the port wing half buckled and the fuselage bent and torn from collision with a tree. The U.S. noted all this and brought out its own slightly modified version of the plane as the A36 Invader, which did mighty work as a dive and glide bomber and ground-support plane in Sicily...
...Wake Island raid Oct. 5 and 6, carrier-borne Hellcats shot 30 Japanese Zeros out of the air, nailed another 31 to the ground with merciless low-level strafing. Not a Hellcat was lost. At another Pacific island, not identified by the Navy, 21 Jap fighters were destroyed, two Hell cats lost. Combined score...