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Boston (Douglas A-20). Long used by the British both as low-level attack bomber and as night fighter (Havoc), the twin-engined A-2O is fast, heavily armed, rugged, typically versatile and a heavy favorite with pilots and-crew. It is also in use in the U.S. Army Air Forces...
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 bombing. One day this week more than 175 of the bombers took off on the long (2,400 mi.) mission. Droning over Greece and Bulgaria, they crossed the Danube just before 3 in the afternoon and dropped low above the villages and farms of Rumania...
Lieut. General George Kenney, the Southwest Pacific's air commander, announced the loss of his fourth key airman in three months: Major Kenneth Mc-Cullar of Batesville, Miss., partner with the late Major William Benn in developing low-level skip-bombing (TIME, Jan. 18). Major Benn and Brigadier Generals Kenneth Walker and Howard Ramey were lost in action, but Major McCullar's death was due to a freak accident...
...film's most exciting shots are those of air battles. At the Front has some of the most detailed closeups of attacking planes yet seen on the screen. It shows low-level enemy attacks so close that bombs can be seen falling from the bomb bays. Again & again enemy planes, machine guns spitting, dive head on at the camera. The camera shows the results: Allied trucks flaring up in brilliant orange and red flame, wounded soldiers being picked up, men milling in shock...
...There is now a tendency towards low-level bombing to the displacement of high-level bombing altogether. . . . Normal anti-aircraft guns mounted on the ground cannot follow low-flying aircraft more than a few seconds [and] fighter planes cannot dive down upon the bombers...