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...slim, wiry Bob Olds made Flying Fortress a household phrase before Pearl Harbor. In Fortress No. 10 he pared his own transcontinental record to 10 hours 45 minutes. Twice he led flights of Fortresses on South American good-will junkets. Photogenic as a Hollywood ace, he and his B-17s became standard fare in newsreels and rotogravure. For organizing the pre-Pearl Harbor Army Ferrying Command he became a major general at 45 (and won his medal). His last job: Commanding General of the Second Air Force (Western U.S.), from which he was recently relieved...
...bomb group's ground crews and six pursuit pilots turned up in Melbourne, Australia without planes. Mostly destined for the Philippines, they were started for Java in February 1942, but Java fell first and they went instead to Karachi, India. There they found ten B-17s, picked up some dislocated combat crews who had come out of Java and the Philippines, and from the U.S. via Africa. At last the Bastards were ready to fly. They started by bombing Rangoon and the Andaman Islands, and ranged across China to Hankow...
...March, the 513th, by now wearing 555 decorations, was ordered home-all except the hard-working ground crew, who had installed 240 motors in the ten B-17s, done other prodigious repair jobs. In the U.S. the 513th will be dissolved, its personnel probably set to training new groups who can hardly hope to see so much of the confused world...
...Eighth ranged out by day, fought its way through thin screens of Germany's over-stretched fighter force, and hoped for many more B-17s...
...submarines, planes, tanks) and the steel center at Saarbrücken. Again it was an airdrome in Belgium, docks at Ostend, power stations in the Lille and Lens areas. U.S. Flying Fortresses made their seventh continental raid, proving the U.S. thesis that the high-speed, high-flying B-17s can be used in daylight raids where accuracy is greater than at night. Not a B-17 had been lost, with or without fighter escort...