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...Eighth. This campaign of combined operations-night & day bombing, saturation and precision raids-became possible with the organization in Britain of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. The Eighth's Bomber Command, its backbone and most potent unit, was born on a grey day in February 1942 when Brigadier General Ira Clarence Eaker stepped from a transatlantic Clipper onto British soil. Eaker had with him a handful of aides, a paper commission and a plan. The plan foresaw the day when the Eighth, with Britain's R.A.F., would be able to overwhelm Ger man defenses and hollow...
...Eaker's closest friends in England is Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur T. Harris, of the R.A.F. Bomber Command. Eaker's arrival in England coincided with Harris' appointment as chief of the big British bombers. Eaker is a frequent guest at the Harris home, is a favorite of Harris' small daughter Jackie. He gives her chocolate from his Post Exchange ration. She gives him pert talk, hints delicately that he is getting bald...
Sergeant Clyde Keeling stepeed out of a huge Liberator bomber last with a question on his lips: "What's next? Rumania and now Austria-and we are based in North Africa...
...going back on them. For instance, you'd be going back on Jimmy Morris. You worked side by side with him, and you all remember how he left here to become a flyer. You know how he was the pilot of a bomber on an important mission in the Mediterranean and how he brought back his plane and landed it. You know the rest of the crew got out and after a while looked around for Jimmy. But Jimmy hadn't come out of that plane. ... He landed the plane and died...
...Bomber's Moon (20th Century-Fox] counters its lack of bombing with a brimming plotful of moonshine. From the time U.S. Air Forces Captain Jeff Dakin (George Montgomery) crashes over Germany until he arrives safely back in Eng land, the plot never stops boiling. When the captain escapes from the prison camp, with an alleged Czech prisoner (Kent Taylor) and a most unlikely-looking Russian Army doctor (Annabella), the trio hitch hike to Frankfort in no less an oddity than a truck full of coffins. When the Czech turns out to be a German spy, Doctor Annabella quite naturally...