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...Britain share a conviction that it can be done and the responsibility for trying to do it. They are Air Marshal Chief Sir Arthur Travers Harris, chief of the R.A.F. Bomber Command, and Major General Ira Clarence Eaker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force. They have assured their military superiors, who in turn have passed the word to Winston Churchill and Franklin Roosevelt, that Germany can be bombed out of the war this year-on one condition. The condition is that nothing whatsoever-whether it be a second front in Europe, expanded action in the Pacific or a Burma...
...that knockout is delivered from the air this year, its chief author will be Air Chief Marshal Harris. Except perhaps in the last rounds, the chief instrument will be his Bomber Command. His friend and poker foe, General Eaker, is just as much of an airman, and he had a great deal to do with presenting and championing the airmen's proposition. But, in comparison with the R.A.F., the Eighth Air Force and its Bomber Command are still small and young. American bombers first attacked Occupied France last August, first flew into Germany last Jan. 27. The American force...
...R.A.F. subordinates usually esteem his quality of directness. "Oh, we love him," one of them said recently; "he's so bloody inhuman." In the first bomber unit which he commanded, between World Wars I & II, he was reputed to be the rudest man in the R.A.F. He was also an effective commander: he developed the "pacification by bombing" which kept unruly Indian border tribes more or less under control. When soft-hearted folk protested, Harris' friends explained that he always gave a village a full day's warning before his bombers destroyed...
...squadron commander, lean, black-eyed Captain Thomas G. Lanphier, tangled with a low-flying Zero, shot it down. He swung away, picked a bomber, shot it down too. Up above, the top-cover fight had broken off. A mission had been completed. The squadron whisked back to its Solomons base, wondered if it had nailed some Jap bigwig in the bombers...
This is the latest addition to the biggest-selling series of books in the world-the British Government's official accounts of the war (priced from 10? to 40?). Bomber Command, Coastal Command and Battle of Britain alone have had total world sales of 12,000,000 copies-twice the last official sales total of Mein Kampf. Their anonymous author (revealed as Hilary St. George Saunders, the House of Commons assistant librarian) now turns his attention to the Commandos. Combined Operations, like its predecessors, has very lively passages indeed...