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...World War I, Lieut. Arthur Travers Harris formed the first night-fighter squadron to protect London from Zeppelins. Thereafter, he became one of the major prophets of air power; the heavy bomber was his special love. Last week theR.A.F.'s Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris said goodbye to his job-and to air power as it had developed during his lifetime. Said Bomber Harris...
...World War II the battleship was the dodo. In the next war-if there "is one-:the heavy bomber will probably be. For the heavy bomber is finished as the main striking instrument...
Back at last, they did what any bomber's crewmen do at the end of a mission: they told what had happened to their targets. Two of them, Lieut. Robert I. Hite of Earth, Texas and Sergeant Jacob de Shazer of Madras, Ore., had fired fuel tanks and factories in Nagoya. Lieut. C. J. Nielsen of Hyrum, Utah had flown over Tokyo, seen his plane's bombs explode in steel mills and a foundry...
...Japs also had landed a blow: a bomber leveled off in Buckner Bay, Okinawa, and sent its torpedo crashing into a "major U.S. war vessel" (carrier or battleship...
...foggiest weather. In the air, radar, supplemented by a map of the terrain, would keep a pilot as well oriented as if he were flying over his living-room rug, would ward off collisions with mountains and other planes. It would, of course, prevent such accidents as the Army bomber's crash into the Empire State Building last month...