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...dropped 700 tons of bombs, thousands of gallons of napalm, left their targets blasted and burning. More than 100 U.S. Sabre and Australian Meteor jets flew top cover, drove off the few MIGs that tried to interfere. Only one plane-a Thunderjet-was lost to Pyongyang's formidable flak...
...crowded into the briefing room. "Gentlemen," said the major, as he laid his pointer on a ten-foot map of Japan and Korea, "our target for tonight is the rail bridge at Sinhung." Said the captain: "You'll each be carrying forty 500-pound bombs with nose fuses . . . Flak is expected to be meager until the release point. We don't believe it is radar-controlled and we don't think it will be accurate." Said the colonel: "We clobbered them at the Sinanju bridge. I hope we do the same tonight...
...real facts finally began to filter through. Talk of piston superiority stopped abruptly when an F80 shot down the first MIG-15. The Eighth Fighter-Bomber Group put out of action 504 enemy tanks, 540 flak guns, 441 locomotives, 5,800 trucks in 22 months. Major General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnel's 22nd Bombardment Wing proved that a B-29 SAC unit could pack up, carry its own supplies 5,000 miles across an ocean, and be in action five days after receiving its orders to move. And it was obvious that SAC squadrons in the U.S. stood...
While many a faster, flashier cousin was earthbound last week for lack of targets, the C-47 creaked in slow circles over enemy territory as the girls broadcast a steadv chatter to the Communist soldiers below. Unperturbed by the heavy flak which broadcasting planes invariably draw, the two girls talked about hardships on the front and the spring planting that was being neglected back home...
Very Tiger. Since the Reds have not attacked the allied front line, they have lost practically nothing to U.N. ground fire, whereas the great majority of the U.N.'s losses (about 890) are due to enemy flak. Red antiaircraft fire, increasing constantly in quality and quantity, now curtains long stretches of railroad, and on the highways Red flak-wagons guard the truck convoys. Around some sensitive targets in North Korea, the flak, automatic and radar-directed, is as deadly as the fiercest German concentrations of World...