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...World War II he became a legend -a brigadier general at 36, a major general six months later. In England, LeMay decided that too many of his B-17s were missing enemy targets because they zigzagged out of the way of heavy antiaircraft fire. He clamped a cigar in his jaw, led the next raid over Saint Nazaire, held his plane on course up to the bomb drop through murderous ack-ack for a grim seven minutes. Next day he issued a flat order: no more evasive action on the final bombing run. Plane damage went up, but results went...
...immaculate uniforms and strides stiffly through Hollywood-brand operations rooms. Only Van Johnson, amazingly enough, who has a set-up part as the General's cynical aide, can touch the acting of the stage version. The play's wonderful single set has been augmented with shots of model B-17s plowing into picturesque English landscape; when the command decision is finally made, the surprise is less than startling...
...Along with Bluie West Eight, a wartime code name for the Air Force's Greenland bases. In the same area, during the war, six P-38s and two B-17s were forced down...
Since the early part of 1943 a group of B-17s had been operating from an obscure village 50 miles northeast of London. "We were lucky. . . we only lost one-half of our crews in the first three months...
...Cliff: "We're lost, but we're making good time." George: "We're broke, but we're having a lotta fun." On their most hazardous leg, 1,600 miles over open water between Japan and Shemya (near Attu), they got an escort of Army B-17s...