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Above them rode farther-roving P47 missions to dive-bomb and strafe every moving truck, self-propelled gun or railroad train fof many miles beyond, while higher still was the steady rumble of the great silver Fortresses in the topmost sky, purring distantly on to knock out the rearmost reinforcement areas, supply points and marshaling yards...
From secret northern bases, bomb-carrying Mustangs flew out to pound and strafe Jap airfields at Tsinan, in Shantung Province, 800 miles northeast of Chungking. In two assaults, 67 Jap fighters and bombers were smashed. The outfit which gave the enemy this stinging surprise was the "Yellow Scorpions" squadron, named for the gaudy spinners on the planes' noses. The squadron had first distinguished itself in Burma; when it was transferred to China, the Japs had hailed the move as an opportunity for revenge. Now the enemy had more revenge...
Occasionally the Luftwaffe chose to fight. When 500 U.S. fighters swept down on northwest Germany to strafe transport, 400 interceptors rose to challenge. They lost 98 in the air and four more trying to take off, against a U.S. loss of only...
...sleet-streaked weather a fleet of 400 U.S. Eighth Air Force fighters ripped out to strafe oil storage depots in the Munich area and at Hanau (near Frankfurt). To the Germans the targets were important enough to send up fighters-for the first big-scale air battle in three weeks. Results: 86 Nazi aircraft destroyed; 16 U.S. lost. The same day a fleet of 650 U.S. heavy bombers, protected by 300 fighters, flew up from Italy to the Vienna area. Again the target was rocket-bomb fuel supplies...
...curious, strangely intimate warfare, often within the sound of the enemy's voice. In the nearby town of Dornot, American and German dead lay sprawled together in too hot a corner for immediate recovery. Occasionally, when the rain lifted, Thunderbolt fighters whipped in to dive-bomb and strafe strong points...