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...Seven bombers were lost. A gunner on a four-engined Lancaster bomber said he saw his bullets strike a Junkers SS night fighter, but could not confirm that it crashed
...tail gunner thought that he counted 106 German planes in two hours; half a dozen often bored in at a single bomber. Some of the Germans did insolent, casual "slow rolls" as they came in, wheeling their planes wing over wing and then straightening out to fire. Their daring and determination cost them dearly. The bombers (each carrying a tremendous wallop in thirteen .50-caliber machine guns) flew in close formation, which caught the Germans in murderous crossfire. The bomber crews claimed 44 German fighters certainly destroyed (six crashed. 23 fell in flames, 14 disintegrated...
...church service came in fading, surging waves over half the earth's surface to the ears of TIME's Correspondent Teddy White. He was aboard a U.S. bomber in China, returning from a Christmas Eve visit to the Japanese army on the Salween River front. Afterward he cabled the following dispatch...
Casually the U.S. Navy announced last week that, in five weeks of operations based on Guadalcanal, a single Navy dive-bomber squadron had attacked 04 ships, had sunk or damaged 18. By this record the squadron, under Lieut. Commander Louis J. ("Bullet Lou") Kirn, became easily the most experienced dive-bombing squadron in the Navy. The squadron's story...
...last week came news of the end of one of the most spectacular careers in the Army's history. Donald M. Keiser had died Dec. 11, "of natural causes," somewhere in Africa, where he was chief of staff of the Bomber Command in Major General Lewis H. Brereton's Middle East Air Force...