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...week's end it was still on the ground. U.S. heavy bombers attacked the railroad yards and repair shops at Münster in Western Germany and lost not a single aircraft. Four night sweeps by R.A.F. heavy bombers met little or no opposition...
Four of them were over Germany, and on the last one his luck almost ran out. He was flying as top-turret gunner over Münster when a flak burst hit the turret dome, shattered his goggles, tore off his oxygen mask. Copilot and radioman pulled him down and revived him with an emergency mask. After that, Ben got his orders for home...
...sharpshooting, well-escorted Eighth mounted four attacks by 400 or more bombers, aimed at priority targets in Wilhelmshaven, Gelsenkirchen & Münster (twin target), Bremen (twice). Between these city-busters, heavy bombers in lesser force hit seven times at industrial targets in Germany and Norway; U.S. and R.A.F. medium bombers and fighter-bombers pecked away day & night in a precise pattern of attack on factories, airdromes, shipping, the Reich's outer defenses...
Lieut. John Gilbert Winant Jr., 22-year-old son of the Ambassador to Britain, missing in action after his Flying Fortress was shot down in the Münster raid in mid-October, turned out to be alive and well in a German prison camp...
Missing in Action. Lieut. John Gilbert Winant Jr., 21, older son of the Ambassador to Britain; after an Eighth Air Force raid on Münster, his 13th combat mission. Fellow flyers reported seeing parachutes float from his Flying Fortress Tech Supply, shot down in an attack by three enemy fighters. A Princeton sophomore when he joined the Army Air Forces last year, the handsome, taciturn pilot flew on his first mission eight weeks ago, joined the first U.S. shuttle raid on Germany, flew safely to Africa over 300 miles of hot enemy territory with 75 flak holes...