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...boss of Saipan's newly announced 21st Bomber Command, 41-year-old Brigadier General Haywood Shephard ("Possum") Hansell Jr., had to sweat out the mission on the ground. He was not alone; ground crews had all preparations made for the homecoming and were out strolling uneasily around the runways hours before the big silvery planes were due back. But the returning airmen brought less blood-and-thunder narrative than an hour's mission in Europe might produce...
...piling up his score, his wing man, Lieut. Roy Rushing, shot down 13. Meanwhile McCampbell's carrier group set a new Pacific group record: at least 295 Jap planes destroyed in the air (mostly by the fighters), 30 "probables," 423 destroyed on the ground. In that time no bomber in the McCampbell group was shot down by enemy aircraft: on protection his fighters scored...
...lived a desperate, hunted life almost from her completion in 1941. Much of the time she hid in harbors licking the wounds from persistent British air attacks. This week off Tromso harbor in northern Norway her barren career ended. Said the British Air Ministry: "Twentynine Lancasters of the R.A.F. Bomber Command . . . attacked the German battleship Tirpitz with 12,0001b. bombs. There were several direct hits and within a few minutes the ship capsized and sank. One of our aircraft is missing...
...lesson learned in World War II is that a daylight bomber is only as good as its gunnery. This week the Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corp. announced an electronic gun sight which, its inventors said, extends the effective range of bomber machine guns from 600 to 1,000 yards...
...turret gunner in a bomber must consider a complex of factors - the speed and altitude of his own plane, the angle and speed of his target, range, bullet speed...