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...words that came from the radio wherever Germans listened on contraband frequencies were German. But the accent was British, the voice pleasantly impersonal. Burly Air Marshal Sir Arthur Travers Harris, chief of the R.A.F.'s Bomber Command, had gone on the air to promise that his bombers (and the Americans') would "scourge the Third Reich from...
...never got to Chungking. It was moonlight when the fighters met his 50 bombers somewhere east of the city, and no fighter could be sure that the bomber he started smoking with his tracers actually went down. But the bomber formations broke and their pilots struck for home-all but four, which plowed on toward Chungking. Near the edge of the city the fighters caught them. They jettisoned their bombs in open fields and streaked away. From its dugouts, after three hours, Chungking emerged. Its cakes had been eaten, its morale bolstered by what U.S. flyers, with Chinese help...
...fired at point-blank range. It was just a slugging match. The rear bomber pulled up over my tracers and fell away smoking. I kicked in behind the second plane. He jettisoned his bombs, but I set him afire. I kicked my ship after the leader. He plowed right on to the field, dropped his bombs. There I caught up and gave him a burst. He just fell to pieces...
...Already on hand: Major General Carl Spaatz, Commander of U.S. Air Forces in Europe, and his bomber command chief, Brigadier General Ira Eaker (TIME, July...
Johnson waded in. He squashed the bug in production, set up new training schools, speeded development work (especially on the famous Boeing Flying Fortress), hotfooted after new business. When in May 1941 President Roosevelt announced the super-duper heavy-bomber program, Phil Johnson was right on the ball, gave Air Chief "Hap" Arnold a four-point program which is still the framework of the $3 billion-plus U.S. bomber program. Soon he had snagged a whacking slice of the whole schedule for his own bombers...