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...faster, has more range, recently had its fighting potency increased by addition of a nose turret. Its fighting and bombing performance in Europe has paralleled the Fortresses' work and it has been pulled out for special long-range work, notably the raid from North Africa on the Ploesti oilfield refineries. In the Pacific, in 161 sorties over a given period, 6-243 met 564 Jap aircraft, shot down 104-three Liberators were lost...
...even military necessity has economic limits. Last week in Washington, as not long before in the Yukon's Whitehorse, the Truman Committee was blood-hounding the question whether this farthest north oilfield was not also farthest north in cost...
...field. It would also build a pipeline of some 500 miles for the crude to a U.S. refinery at Whitehorse, plus gasoline lines to Skagway (on tidewater), Fairbanks, and the airfield at Watson Lake. In all. some 1,600 miles of pipeline, over the toughest terrain imaginable, plus an oilfield as industrially remote as Africa...
...standpoint, casualties alone do not win a war and the point is to win. They know more about Axis military and industrial strength than they do about secretive Russia's. They cannot get the use of Russian air bases for bombing raids like the one on the Ploesti oilfield-which could have been made from Russian soil with a shorter flight and heavier bomb loads...
...Announced that Argentina was dickering to get 36,000 tons of oilfield equipment from...