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...large extent, by the British Air Command in the Middle East-notably Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder and Air Vice Marshal Arthur Coningham. Its essence was the division of air forces into two parts, tactical and strategic. The tactical part, consisting of fighters, fighter-bombers, light and medium bombers, became in effect a weapon of the advancing army; it was used specifically and with terrifying concentration against the enemy army and its retreating and rear elements. The strategic part, consisting of heavy bombers, was used against the enemy's supply lines and extreme rear bases...
...that zero hour almost the entire number of light and medium aircraft assembled by the Allies in North Africa concentrated on the tight area near El Hamma where Rommel had his 88-mm. guns, his armor, and his Italians. Before each stick of bombs hit the earth, new sticks, and after them still other sticks, left the bomb bays. The bombardment lasted two and a half hours. Artillery chimed in toward the end, and when the bayonets finally slit forward, there was nothing left that could be called resistance...
Their 6-26 medium bomber, eight men aboard, set out last May to bomb Jap-held Rabaul. "We dropped our bombs on the runway and machine-gunned two bombers on the ground," said 2nd Lieut. Eugene D. Wallace of Los Angeles, the plane's copilot. "Antiaircraft fire was awfully heavy and ... we were hit. . . . The pilot said we would have to make a crash landing...
...find anything to put into them. We've bought enough tooth-past and cigarettes and soap to last a year. We've dumped our and our roommate-s galoshes in as well; we even contemplate putting in an empty suitcase--but we may still have to find a medium-size person who doesn't mind being a little uncomfortable while en route...
When a group of eminent Mexicans visits Boston and the University the week starting April 5, its presence will make another milestone in "good neighbor" relations as achieved through the medium of astronomy. Through these relations, fostered by the observatory at Tonanbintla in the state of Puebla...