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...FOOTNOTE*Previous record, 469.2 m.p.h., by Fritz Wendel, at Augsburg, Germany, in a Messerschmitt...
...Having paid the price of admission to get over the target, we've got to get the benefits.") His men saw the casualty list go up, tagged the skipper "Old Ironpants." But LeMay got bombing results. He led many a flight himself, including the famed raid on the Messerschmitt plant at Regensburg in August...
Confusion spread through their forces. A Messerschmitt pilot landed near Verona, found himself looking into the guns of a squad of U.S. soldiers and heard a Yankee voice drawl, "Climb down, brother, it's old-home week." Cabled TIME Correspondent Reg Ingraham : "At a road junction I saw a dozen dead Germans sprawled grotesquely in the dust beside wrecked vehicles and one dead mule. They had run into an American road block while trying to escape north ward." By the 21st day of the offensive, 120,000 of the estimated 250,000 Germans in Italy were prisoners. The chance...
...limits of military security (the enemy has had no opportunity to capture a P-80), estimates have been made of some of the features of the performance of the newest U.S. craft in the air. So fast is the P-80 that nothing that flies (including the tailless Messerschmitt 163 rocket interceptor) "can match its speed of "considerably more than 600 m.p.h." Its ceiling is well above the 40,000 feet at which propeller-driven planes can operate with efficiency, and it has a pressurized cabin...
...successive nights small packs of German raiders ranged north and south, dropping bombs, strafing trains and towns. The weekend "scalded cat" (hit-and-run) forays were effective mainly as outlets for Nazi hatred, but they showed a new type of nasty cat: the twin-jetted, 500-mile-an-hour Messerschmitt 262-A, carrying two 250-lb. bombs...