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...Force out of southeast China.* The Fourteenth still had four strips, now all doomed, east of the Hankow-Canton railway. Soon only the biggest of Chennault's planes will be able to reach the South China Sea, where in the first 19 days of September his B-24s alone had sunk 74,600 tons of Jap shipping. The hope of using Chennault's air forces to support the promised approach of Admiral Nimitz to the China coast has gone glimmering...
...Timberlake is one of the Army's hardest-hitting bomber commanders, a crack pilot and specialist in B-24s. His brother, burly Brigadier General Patrick Timberlake, 43, formerly chief of the U.S. Ninth Air Force's Bomber Command in the Middle East, is now one of the Ninth's top planners. Their eldest brother, Brigadier General Edward Wrenne ("Ed") Timberlake, perversely became an expert in shooting planes down, and now commands the anti-aircraft defenses of Washington...
...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 and B-24s...
Focke-Wulfs and Messerschmitt 109-Fs had run head-on into the terrible fire power of 50-caliber heavy machine guns, which outrange the German fighters' 20-mm. cannon. Beside the Fortresses were Liberators (four-engined B-24s), making their debut in a Western Europe mass raid. With a lower ceiling than the Fortresses, Liberators fly faster, carry four tons of bombs on their extreme range of 3,000 miles to the Fortresses' three tons over 3,500 miles. Redesigning will give both planes room for an even greater load, which they already have the power to lift...
...somewhere in the Middle East," Major John R. ("Killer") Kane stood before a map of Navarino Bay and gave pilots and crews of his bomber squadron a last-minute briefing. Airmen set their watches to the split second, piled into their planes. They were big four-motored Consolidated B-24s, painted salmon pink for camouflage and lettered with such names as Hail Columbia, Natchez to Memphis, Jersey Jerk, Alice the Goon. For these men of Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton's Middle East air forces, who in the last 110 days have made 90 raids over Libya, Southern Europe...