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...Mustang pilot was rescued less than three miles off Honshu in broad daylight by a surfaced submarine. Jap picket boats dared not venture out: submarine and pilot were protected by a circling Superdumbo...
...just after midday, when thousands of Osaka workers had paused to bolt down meager lunches in the partly ruined Chicago of Japan. High in the heavy overcast the U.S. planes rode in-more than 400 B-29s and 150 escorting P-51 Mustang fighters. For three hours the planes were overhead. High-explosive bombs fell first, driving Japanese air-raid workers to the shelters. Then the fire bombs fell, destroying without interruption...
...huge new sister, the Consolidated B32, plus the newest versions of the battle-tested Republic P47 (Thunderbolt) and North American P-51 (Mustang) are the planes with which the Air Forces will mainly wage the Pacific air war. A brand-new type also to be included in the Air Forces front-line strength will be Lockheed's slick new jet-plane, the P-80 (TIME, March 12), on which veteran fighter pilots are now being trained. Of all the older standbys of the European Avar only a few Flying Fortresses will fight in the Pacific frontline, after redeployment...
Japan paid dearly last week for the failure of its troops on Iwo Jima. Over Nippon's home islands, flying protection for Superfortresses, roared fast PSI Mustang fighter planes from Iwo's fields, 760 miles away. In the greatest air battle ever to rage in Japanese skies, they helped send 173 enemy planes spinning down, raising Japan's week-end air loss to a calamitous 600-plus...
...fields of Long Island, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Co. last week sprouted the best production record of the war. In March, Grumman turned out 658 Navy fighting planes, most ever turned out in one month by a single U.S. plane plant. Previous record holder: North American Aviation Inc., with 571 Mustang fighters in January...