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...R.A.F. is pleased when losses run as low as 3% to 5%, as they recently have. It begins to worry when losses approach 10%, the officially accepted dividing line between profitable and wasteful operations. At points which the Germans chose to defend strongly, they demonstrated last week that their ack-ack and fighter protection was sufficient to cause the R.A.F. real concern...
...average of 45 missions per plane against Japs, Germans and Italians, the 513th's ten Flying Fortresses were riddled by ack-ack and enemy pursuit, but not one was shot down and not one was cracked...
Algeria, Tunisia, Home. They moved to Biskra after the Americans invaded North Africa. Because the mountains over the Kasserine Pass were high, they could get only 12,000 ft. above heavy German ack-ack (they usually flew at 25,000 ft.). When intelligence officers asked Bombardier Milton Stevens about the anti-aircraft strength he replied: "Heavy to unbearable...
...ships and destroyers. This fight was for the kill. The Mitchells swooped low to strafe lifeboats and rafts. A destroyer, three merchantmen and a transport were sunk. Eight others were hit. One squadron of Mitchells, skip-bombing at mast level, got twelve hits, despite the nail of frantic Jap ack-ack. More Zeros appeared, but they too were shot down. Kenney's bombers were blasting at Lae, nearest Jap airdrome, with such ferocity that effective aid for the convoy could not get into...
...miles northwest of Guadalcanal. In a raid on shipping at nearby Buin, U.S. bombers encountered 45 Zeros. In a raid on the same area the following day, eleven Zeros, two U.S. bombers, six U.S. fighters were shot down. Later that week, low-flying bombers had to duck through strong ack-ack fire to score direct hits on four Jap cargo ships...