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...Delhi, Admiral the Lord Louis Mountbatten, disciple of unified command, welded units of the R.A.F. and U.S. Army Air Forces into a single air force. Its commander:purse-mouthed, able Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Peirse, onetime chief of R.A.F.'s Bomber Command...
...from England again last week laced the multiple vapor trails of Eighth Air Force bombers and fighters bound "for Germany. For the Thunderbolts and Lightnings, it was their longest mission yet (over 400 miles out) and a new high in U.S. fighter-bomber relations...
When the first Spits and Thunderbolts started their escort work last spring, trigger-itchy gunners of Forts and Liberators warned them that it was hard to distinguish between friend & foe in an air battle. Some friendly fighters were shot down before fighters learned never to point their noses at bombers, as attacking Nazis do. Some bomber men had to be taught better recognition and understanding of fighter tactics...
...from runways somewhere in the Central Pacific; they may have used Tarawa's air strip. The bomb doses were small (15 to 40 tons in two of four Army raids). Resistance was light: 20 Zeros appeared over Mili atoll, tried (and failed) to slap the raiders with anti-bomber bombs dropped from above in the German manner. In smaller force, Navy patrol bombers snooped the islands. But the blow that really caught the Japs in the Marshalls with their kimonos off, was a pile-driving carrier raid...
...task ships waited for word. One hour after the takeoff it came: "Enemy taken by surprise." Kwajalein's roomy lagoon (80 miles long, 20 miles at the widest) was full of shipping: sampans, inter-island craft, seagoing merchantmen, tankers, warships. Said a U.S. pilot: "It was a dive bomber's paradise, and we turned it into a Japanese hell." The score after ten minutes of concentrated attack: two light cruisers, one oiler, three cargo transports sunk; one troop transport, three cargo transports damaged; grounded planes and shore installations hard...