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...navigator needed some flying time to collect his flying pay for that month. His name was padded on the Form I (airplane flight log). For some reason, the local Bomber Command Headquarters decided that all crew members on that particular flight should be awarded the Air Medal. He received...
Three times in four nights, R.A.F. heavy bombers struck Berlin in fullscale, 700-bomber raids. On an early morning, more than 800 U.S. heavies attacked Frankfort on the Main. At the week end, 700 more attacked Brunswick's aircraft factories. Between Thursday and Sunday at least 9,000 tons of bombs fell on German targets...
...husky, youthful (38) Major General Frederick L. Anderson, boss of the Eighth Air Force Bomber Command...
...heavy-bomber crews came back from the hard-fought raid on Oschersleben (TIME, Jan. 24) full of admiration for the daring of an unknown fighter pilot - a U.S. airman in a Mustang who took on singlehanded a formation of 30 Nazi fighter planes...
...great majority of U.S. businessmen appear to favor renegotiation of war profits. Patriotism aside, they have grown politically sensitive in the past decade and have no wish to be accused of profiteering. Last week in St. Louis' Coronado Hotel, the world's No. 1 producer of bomber turrets publicly embraced the theory that the best wartime safeguard of free enterprise is low profits. Said Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co.'s President and Board Chairman William Stuart Symington Ill, at a labor-management banquet...