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...this July 4 morning, we all read in the newspapers and heard on the radio of the German dive-bomber attack on British ground troops in Egypt. This attack occurred July...
...Commander of the Bomber Command, under General Spaatz, is husky, 46-year-old Brigadier General Ira Eaker (rhymes with baker), one of the Question Mark's pilots, first pilot to fly on instruments across the continent...
...R.A.F. lost 271 aircraft in the month's operations over Germany and occupied territory, while the Germans lost only 100 over Britain and western Europe. Though there were only two 1,000-plane raids (on the Ruhr June 1, on Bremen June 25), the Bomber Command was far from idle. It carried through 16 raids on German objectives and 33 on occupied territory, some of them sweeps by 300 or more planes. July got off to a poorer start. Until the shipbuilding port of Wilhelmshaven was attacked last week, German soil had six raid-free days...
Stronger Tea. Up to last week censors in China had allowed U.S. correspondents to identify two Army bomber units and one pursuit group. General Chennault said that this initial force's job would be to soften up Jap strongholds in China, put the Japanese on the air defensive. More U.S. planes and crews will have to complete the long journeys to Africa, India and China before the Army Air Forces can take a decisive role in China's war or carry the war to Japan itself...
...Consolidated four-engine Liberator bomber on freight-passenger duty recently spanked across the Atlantic five times in nine days...