Word: messerschmitts
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...Alexander Yakovlev cut his teeth on trainers before turning to fighters. His proudest brain child is the YAK, a cannon-armed, partly plywood, 400-mile-an-hour plane, which has consistently outfought the Messerschmitt. Practical Vice Commissar Yakovlev is manager of a huge aircraft plant, a major general...
...week-500 miles into Germany to hit Nazi factories at Schweinfurt -(producer of more than half the Reich's supply of roller bearings). At the same time, other Fortress forces-as they did last week-fight their way 600 miles into Germany to hit Regensburg on the Danube (Messerschmitt-101 fighters), turning south later to cross the Alps and the Mediterranean and land at North African bases. At the same time, U.S. medium bombers and fighters stage widespread diversionary raids on Nazi air bases on the flank of the main Fortress movement, drawing off as many German fighters...
...without boasting: "While I was on those three bombing raids with Major General Jimmy Doolittle . . ." or "Officially, I have just one Messerschmitt to my credit, but there were really about 15 more...
...clock." Far out to the right, at two o'clock, five or six were waiting. Slowly, gracefully, one peeled off and started toward us, closer & closer. Even before he was in range, our right gun fired. The tracers were too low. They moved closer, but the Messerschmitt had made his pass and gone...
...radio operator and waist gunner, had his right leg nearly severed. The pilot shouted to the bombardier to forget the bombs, but he leaned over, dripping blood on his bombsight. and let them go. An Me-109 approached. The wounded sergeant dragged himself to his gun, shot down the Messerschmitt, then picked up a camera and photographed the crash. Two other gunners gave him a shot of morphine, put a tourniquet on his leg, nursed him safely back to base...