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...Solomons area, the Thirteenth Air Force sent 250 medium and heavy bombers against Bougainville in one day. The Japanese, with recent reinforcements flown in from other bases, made three attempts at retaliation: to minor raids on Guadalcanal, one minor raid on Funafuti. Spokesmen asserted that air patrols had made it impossible for any sizable Jap naval force to remain south of Rabaul for more than 24 hours...
Allied airmen in Britain gave a perfect and prophetic demonstration of their power. Heavy night bombers, heavy day bombers, night-&-day medium bombers, long-and short-range fighters struck as a single weapon with a single purpose-the invasion of Western Europe...
Fortresses, medium bombers and fighter bombers meantime attacked Nazi ports, railways, airdromes and aircraft maintenance centers in France and the Lowlands harder and more often than ever before. Then, on the climactic night, the R.A.F. Bomber Command suddenly diverted fleets of its far-ranging heavy bombers from Germany to the Channel coast. They hit Boulogne, a port on the hump of northern France nearest to Britain, one of the logical invasion routes...
...Next day medium bombers hit Boulogne. Other formations, including Fortresses, bombed and strafed every airfield from which German planes could have taken off to repel invaders. Swarms of fighters, on escort and on independent sweeps, took and held absolute command of the sky above the coastland. Behind the coastal area, near Paris, Fortresses and escorting Thunderbolt fighters staged a great raid with a double purpose: to bomb an aircraft-engine works and to engage the only sizable force of German fighters which appeared over France that...
Whether the Negro pilot-training experiment is proved or not, it is going to continue. Negro cadets will begin medium-bomber training next month in classes with white cadets. But their squadron, to be activated on July 1, 1944, will be all-Negro, the first in the Air Forces. This squadron, too, is an experiment, and will be one until a question as old as U.S. independence is answered: Is the Negro as good a soldier as the white...