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Their 6-26 medium bomber, eight men aboard, set out last May to bomb Jap-held Rabaul. "We dropped our bombs on the runway and machine-gunned two bombers on the ground," said 2nd Lieut. Eugene D. Wallace of Los Angeles, the plane's copilot. "Antiaircraft fire was awfully heavy and ... we were hit. . . . The pilot said we would have to make a crash landing...
...Liberator bomber came over, flying tree high. "We ran and got the biggest mirror in camp," said Bordner. "It was about six inches square. We flashed it for all we were worth. By the grace of God, somebody...
...Harbor, Hollywood has been trying to turn out a good war picture. At last something has come. "Air Force" is a fine film about a group of flyers and their plane. Something like the group of "In Which We Serve," the story centers around an implement of war--a bomber...
Giraud's Present. In North Africa Giraud holds labored French-English telephone conversations with Eisenhower, whom he considers "a fine man." He hates desk work, bats around whenever possible in a U.S. twin-motored bomber. He runs himself on a Spartan 5 a.m. to 10 p.m. schedule, last week treated himself to a trip to the Tunisian front...
...fifth of Germany's Luftwaffe was concentrated in the area, almost the entire Italian air force. German veterans from France and Russia appeared. P-38 pilots developed a "Messerschmitt twitch," a nervous glance back over the shoulder. Axis anti-aircraft fire intensified, caught many an unlucky medium bomber before the high command realized that these planes were better suited to sweeps against shipping...