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...back from Berlin the Polish crew of the big R.A.F. bomber caught it hot & heavy. The flak was astonishingly accurate. The searchlights never let them go, the gunners on the ground seemed to have perfect range. Only occasional clouds, violent evasive action and luck saved them...
...Night. But the Allies, far better than the tiring Luftwaffe, could replace their losses, press on with the attack. Punches were tossed at targets in German Europe all the way from the Pas-de-Calais to Sofia. Allied bomber fleets were roaring out by day and by night, from British and Italian bases...
...like broom-riding witches. But no details of the weapons could be given. Only last week did British authorities take them off the secret list, disclosing that the guns actually were rocket projectors. Some of them had been used as far back as 1941, had brought down an enemy bomber with their second salvo...
...week his doghouse got another star. Hugh Knerr became a major general, was revealed as having one of the most important posts in the Air Forces. He is chief of the Air Service Command for the Strategic Air Forces in Britain, has the job of keeping the great U.S. bomber fleets flying over Europe...
Homing Angel. "Here comes the Angel!" the Marauder pilots used to shout when Wing Commander Lloyd Vernon Chadburn brought his R.C.A.F. Spitfires into action. In escorting U.S. bombers on 60 sorties over enemy territory, Chadburn's wing lost only one bomber, accounted for 44 of the enemy (twelve by the Wing Commander himself). For this work, Chadburn became the first R.C.A.F. member to win a bar to his D.S.O. At Dieppe he had previously won the D.F.C. Home to Canada this week came blond, soft-spoken Wing Commander Chadburn, 24, for a well-earned rest...