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...three crack Britons -General Sir Harold Alexander, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham. (The shift in command also sent air-minded Lieut. General Frank M. Andrews to head all U.S. troops in the European theater -with his base in England, now one long runway for bomber attacks on Germany...
...couldn't make out what they were blazing at. Then I saw a plane suddenly take what I thought was a nose dive, when it suddenly started to level off and I saw some bombs drop out and start down. Then I realized it was a dive-bomber attack. I looked farther up and there was a whole line of these planes headed for the port. I saw one ship struck, and in no time the whole port seemed covered with bomb bursts, and from the dense clouds of smoke which appeared almost immediately, it looked like a tremendous...
...first time, the War Production Board conceded last week that all was not well with Henry Ford's famed Willow Run bomber plant. The 975-acre plant was scheduled to start rolling out bombers last summer, was popularly supposed to produce a bomber an hour eventually. But WPB now admitted: "There have been many disappointments in connection with the Willow Run operation, and the plant, even now, is far from peak production...
Possibility. World War II has the beginnings of an air theater envisioned by Billy Mitchell in Britain, where Sir Arthur Harris' Bomber Command and Ira Eaker's Eighth Air Force have more than the nucleus of the kind of organization airmen want, to prove or disprove their doctrine for all time. But the force is not yet prepared to hit Germany day & night with full strength. And even if it is built to that strength, the proof will not be conclusive. Men on the ground in Russia and in North Africa have weakened Germany too much...
Britain's air forces were not idle. Twice during the week bombers smashed western Germany's industries, not neglecting the Ruhr. But bomber strength more frequently was swung on the German submarine base at Lorient, which had four raids in ten days. Light bombers and fighters swept day & night over occupied territory, shooting up trains, bombing light-industrial targets...