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When, on the wrinkled steppe before Stalingrad, the Wehrmacht met defeat, Hitler did not turn for help to one of his Nazi henchmen-Jodl, List, Guderian; he turned to Junker von Manstein. In December 1942, in the marshlands hugging the Caspian Sea, Manstein met in combat the Russian ex-private, Rodion Malinovsky. Manstein's first punch-with massed tanks-sent the Russian reeling back. But soon Malinovsky received help, counterattacked, made the marshes a cemetery for Manstein's men, tanks, hopes...
Seemingly endless streams of U.S. and British medium bombers, protected by snarling fighters, whipped across the Channel from rain-soaked English airfields. In one 36-hour period, 4,000 Allied planes dropped their bombloads, came back without a single loss in combat. Some formations took 45 minutes to pass over Dover. Window-jarring explosions swept across the narrow waters. For the first time since the Eighth Air Force and the R.A.F. staged a practice preliminary around Boulonge (TIME, Sept. 20), heavy day and night bombers shifted from the strategic assault on Germany to tactical assault on the invasion coast...
...miles from the bulge of Brazil, is one of the vital links in the Air Transport Command's world-girdling chain of airfields. Ascension is the dot in the ocean that made it possible to fly Lightning (P-38) single-seated fighters across the South Atlantic to combat fields in North Africa and England...
Change by Range. But soon Major General William Kepner's Eighth Fighter Command radically changed bomber operations along the Britain-to-Germany airways. His seasoned combat pilots have made clannish bomber men welcome their fighter escorts. One of the best of the bomber's new friends is a silent, rosy-cheeked Group Commander, Colonel William J. ("Wild Bill") Cummings Jr., who was on Clark Field when the Japs attacked the Philippines, made his way to the Eighth by way of Corregidor, Java and Australia. In some five months, Cummings has led Thunderbolts over Bremen, Cologne, Emden...
Henceforth most U.S. warplanes will go into action bright and shining except for the dull black patches brushed on surfaces which reflect sunlight into airmen's eyes. Only "where tactical considerations require it in combat zones" will camouflage be used any more...