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...Speaker, knowing the President's affinity for dogs, it was only natural that I should believe that there was some foundation to the story. . . . You know, it is not so very long ago that a certain very high-placed American woman made a trip to Australia in a bomber that it is reported had been remodeled so as to permit the installation of a shower bath...
...hero of the story is personable young Peter Marshall, an English bomber pilot who likes to fish. A 33-inch pike which he catches one afternoon helps him strike up an acquaintance with pretty Gervase Robertson, a WAAF assigned to his station. He takes her through the countryside, falls happily in love...
Brigadier General La Verne ("Blondy") Saunders launched the Twentieth Bomber Command on the heaviest aerial assault yet staged from Asiatic bases. He threw his full striking power into a 24-hour assault; he challenged the defensive reserves of the Jap air force with the first daylight raid on the homeland-the kind of mission for which the Superfortress was designed...
Through waves of black, scudding flak, Jap fighters corkscrewed toward the giant bombers. The lead bombers went over so fast and so high that the Japs could hardly get a pass at them. One fighter rammed a bomber it had been following, and both fell to destruction. But most Nip fighters cagily stayed beyond range of the B-29s' heavy armament until they could pick on a plane damaged by flak...
...Enemy's Best. A hundred fighters had taken the air; twelve were confirmed destroyed, twelve were probables. The Jap home air force's most resolute opposition had failed to prevent a single U.S. element reaching its target. By the time the last bomber left, the afternoon sun had been blotted from Yawata's mills. Smoke was so dense that bomb bursts from the last planes could not be seen...