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Liberator (Consolidated B-24). Newer than the eight-year-old Fortress, the 6-24 has the same characteristics. Possibly a shade less rugged under enemy gunfire than the Fortress, the 6-24 is slightly 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...
...they said. They and the Colonel crawled into a ditch by the road, fired when the tank was ten feet away. The tank began smoking and the German crew, screaming with pain, started to climb from the turret. Colonel Stephenson said: "My men cut them down one by one with rifles as they climbed...
Sailors on a trim, haze-grey U.S. destroyer cheered as two seamen pulled away the stencil to show off a new decoration on the side of a forward gun turret. It was the white silhouette of a medium "Tiger" German tank, official recognition that their ship had destroyed one of the enemy tanks which gave Major General Terry Allen's "Fighting First" Division a rough time during the initial hours at Gela...
Another peeled off. This time the gun got the range, sending tracers and explosives that seemed to go right into the fuselage. He passed out of sight. All the guns were firing now-from the nose, top turret, the waist and the ball turret in the belly. The tail gunner reported attack after attack...
...during a raid on the Nazi U-boat pens at St.-Nazaire, his bomber. Fortress 649, was badly hit and burst into flame. The fire sweeping the fuselage drove the radio operator and both waist gunners to "bail out. Emerging from his turret, Snuffy cast aside his own parachute, tackled the fire with extinguishers and water bottles. When he had used them up, he beat out the last flames with his hands. Meantime, he had contrived to man both waist guns in turn, helped to beat off harrying Focke-Wulfs and given first aid to the wounded tail gunner...