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Allied air power worked on Germany last week like a two-man saw. East of the Oder River, U.S. Mustang fighters from bases in Britain flew wing to wing with Red Army Yaks to beat off a German attack on a Russian airfield. In Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia, Americans from Italy joined Russian airmen in attacks. U.S. Mustangs downed German fighters shooting at Red bombers...
Married. Captain Don S. Gentile, 23, dark-haired, dimpled, Mustang fighter ace, credited with shooting down 23 enemy planes; and Isabella Masdea, 21, his home-town sweetheart; in a cross-sabred, military ceremony; in Columbus, Ohio...
...Hubert Zemke was the leading U.S. ace operating in Europe, with 19½ air kills.* They included almost every type of German aircraft, even a jet-propelled plane. He bagged at least one of his total with each major type of U.S. fighter plane used in the ETO-Thunderbolt, Mustang, Lightning...
That day, McAllister had flown over Kweilin as the last fighter strip was blown up by U.S. demolition men. The once great base was checked off as the seventh of the missing. The Japs were only three minutes away as the Mustang flew when the job was finally done...
...North American's PSI Mustang, which probably has the longest tactical range (some 600 miles) of any U.S. fighter, so far as any official announcement has been made, mounts six .50-cal. machine guns, can carry at least a 1,000-lb. bomb load...