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Through the eyes of its own and German reconnaissance pilots, the Italian High Command looked around the edges of the Mediterranean and made a startling claim: Rome radio said that the Queen Elizabeth and Valiant, 30,600-ton battleships of the Queen Elizabeth class, had been seriously damaged by the Italian Navy. More than that, said Rome, the Valiant was still in dry dock after six months of repairs and the Queen Elizabeth "will require some time before repairs are completed." Knowing that the Italians were fishing for news, Britain kept...
...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...
Last month the Air Transport Command was set up. It swallowed the Air Force Ferrying Command and the cargo division of the Air Services Command. Its commander is Brigadier General Harold L. George. The Army air-freight service had already begun, in a small way, to work wonders...
...small part the Ferrying Command has offset the loss of the Burma Road...