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...Target: Railroads. Despite bad weather, weariness and tough opposition, hate and victory spurred the soldiers...
Tokyo radio said that Liberators on another raid had headed for Japan; "impenetrable defenses" turned them back. On the way home, according to the Japs, the Americans bombed the island of Formosa "for propaganda purposes." Actual target: an aluminum plant at Takao...
Over the Messerschmitt plant at Brunswick last week, the Flying Fortress Frenesi squared away for her second run at the target. Then the fighters came, twin-engine jobs that slammed rockets into the formation, snub-nosed 190s that whirled through the Fortresses with their guns spitting like alley cats...
...called in as technical adviser to the Army, threw cold water. Would not a mere 3,000 bbl. of oil a day by the spring of 1944 be "too little and too late?" Would not a costly refinery only 150 miles from the Pacific coast be a too-easy target to enemy aircraft? The hints were ignored...
...long, 4 ft. thick), each one twice the length and thickness of a submarine's torpedo. Five or seven rocket installations in the tail keep the projectile going, outer rockets firing in pairs after a large central one has burned out. It is guided to its target by radio, and causes a tremendous explosion when it hits. The rocket gun even has a name: Urania...