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...British airman had a clear idea of what a tactical air force was supposed to do. Coningham, who had left a heavy-bomber post in Britain, was flexible enough to learn. He took over seven battered squadrons of Hurricanes and lumbering Blenheims from Air Vice Marshal Raymond Collishaw, whose motto had been "Let's fox 'em." That idea did not suit Coningham. He knew that Jerry had to be slugged...
Like his boss, General Montgomery, he was full of toplofty contempt for the Germans. He conceded that some German airmen in the desert were good, but considered most of them "poor stuff . . . incredible hoots." He called the then celebrated Stuka dive bomber an "overrated crate"-which...
Coningham invented the tactic of sending out small bomber formations with inordinately powerful fighter escorts-e.g., 80 fighters for 18 bombers. The escorts would so chew up the enemy fighter strength that smaller escorts were enough for protection thereafter, and bomber missions could be multiplied...
Joseph Barnes, world traveling foreign news editor of the New York Herald Tribune, just in by bomber from England, reported that he had to stand all the way from Iceland...
Scheduled to go home on August 1, hawk-faced Colonel Gabreski went on working as an extra-duty volunteer on his old job-bomber-escort, strafing missions, other fighter pilot's miscellany...