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...R.A.F. operating from Britain made fewer big raids than the Eighth (but R.A.F. planes, including light Mosquito bombers, were out 28 nights of the month); dropped 31,000 tons of bombs (biggest previous month was August 1943 with 20,000 tons); lost 283 planes (compared to 381 in August...
Over France a Mosquito pilot spotted two twin-engined Heinkel bombers flying close formation, and dived on them for the kill. But as he swept into gun range and opened fire, he gasped and blinked. The two bombers were one, joined together along the inner wing structures, with a fifth engine installed at the joint...
...Mosquito pilot nervously shot the thing down, then headed home, wondering glumly how he was going to report this without acquiring a permanent reputation as the R.A.F.'s biggest liar. Intelligence officers, finally convinced, guessed the monstrosity might have been an experimental glider tow plane...
Many Egyptians blame the epidemic on the British, claim the British brought Anopheles gambiae, the most dreaded malaria-carrying mosquito, to the area via Nubia from the Sudan. They also blame the British for buying up Egypt's food, causing undernourishment which makes the fellahin highly susceptible to disease. Actually, the British buy no corn at all from Egypt, buy no wheat without permission from the Government. Real reason the fellahin are starving: they get only about 2O? a day to feed themselves and their families, from landlords who run the region on the feudal system. Now even...
...open TIME'S Stockholm office, Scott crossed the Atlantic on a little unescorted merchant ship and flew to Sweden in the bombbay of a disarmed British Mosquito bomber that can carry only one passenger and flies only on moonless nights to lessen the chances of being shot down. His listening post is one of two we have set up in neutral European countries to get the truth out of Festung Euro pa and into the pages of TIME. The other is in Switzerland − and very soon I hope to be able to bring you word of still...