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German planes felled only four of the 115 U.S. bombers, the crew of one of which was saved. U.S. pilots left the Fives-Lille steel & engineering works a pyre of fire, said they saw smoke rising 2.000 feet into the sky of France. The bombers had not only held at arm's length the best fighter planes Germany has, but they had felled at least 48, probably destroyed 38 more and damaged 19, while the" Allied fighter escort accounted for five.* The figures were so incredible that the Bomber Command withheld them until they were triple-checked. They added...
...operations room "somewhere in the Middle East," Major John R. ("Killer") Kane stood before a map of Navarino Bay and gave pilots and crews of his bomber squadron a last-minute briefing. Airmen set their watches to the split second, piled into their planes. They were big four-motored Consolidated B-24s, painted salmon pink for camouflage and lettered with such names as Hail Columbia, Natchez to Memphis, Jersey Jerk, Alice the Goon. For these men of Major General Lewis Hyde Brereton's Middle East air forces, who in the last 110 days have made 90 raids over Libya...
Last week, the Mexican Government remembered Jaime Nuño, sent an army bomber (the first Mexican war plane to fly over U.S. soil in World War II) to fetch his remains from Buffalo. To the strains of a string quartet and a speech by Mayor Joseph J. Kelly, Composer Nuño's body was exhumed and started on its southward flight. In Mexico City a military guard of honor, 300 music conservatory students and a parade of thousands of school children waited to bear the coffin to Mexico's magnificent Monumento de la Revoluti...
Killed on Duty. Captain Don E., Brown, 25, son of Cinecomic Joe E. Brown; in the crash of an Army bomber near Palm Springs, Calif...
...compact device is already in use for testing all types of planes from single-seater fighters to B-19s. A recorder costs $2,000 (Glenn Martin paid for one in a week with money saved in life-insurance premiums for the three observers usually carried on heavy bomber test flights). But the supply of recorders is still limited...