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...simulating actual battle, sometimes dying in the winter waves. Camouflaged trucks rumble endlessly through country lanes. Farmers' fields feel the strange bite of tank treads. By night the R.A.F.'s soft drumming fills the sky. By day people stop still in the streets to watch the silvery bomber formations high overhead: "Blimey, look how tight those Americans keep together...
...says Arnold, "is to make the coming invasion of Germany as economical as possible by drastically reducing the war potential of the Third Reich." Measured by results, Arnold believes A.A.F. losses have been minuscule. "It is possible that the Schweinfurt mission in which we lost 60 of our bombers may prove to have been one of the decisive air actions of the war." The Schweinfurt plants produced over 50% of Germany's ball bearings. The Regensburg raid caused a loss in production of 500 ME-109s. Cost of that raid to the Eighth Bomber Command...
Anxious to preserve the ape colony, the British recently brought in two males from Tetuan. They were called Monty and Ike (for obvious generals). Inexplicably, Ike died. For Monty, a female was flown from Algiers in a bomber. Her crate was labeled "On His Majesty's Service...
...Willow Run bomber plant, the company docked the pay of a foreman for spending company time on union business. The foremen promptly struck. The Association estimated that 1,800, or 90%, went out; the Ford company estimate, 1,130. Although the 40,000 other workers stayed on the job, production nosedived, was cut in half in the manufacturing department. After one day, the strike ended when the company reportedly agreed not to dock the foreman...
...bombing force operating against Germany." This decision officially put the air attack on a single sky front. It meant that both the U.S. Eighth Air Force, striking from Britain, and the U.S. Fifteenth, flying from the Mediterranean, would synchronize their blows. Up to now the R.A.F.'s strategic bomber force has been based largely in Britain, hence may require no inter-theater commander. Apparently, the U.S. Army Air Forces were to continue and increase strategic bombings from both British and Mediterranean bases...