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Sixty four-engined bombers, possibly 15% of the attacking force, went hurtling down on to the Continent of Europe as they fought swarms of Nazi fighters 500 miles into Germany. The target: three plants at Schweinfurt, producing 50% of Germany's ball and roller bearings. In the Eighth's greatest single loss, $20,000,000 worth of bombers carried 593 U.S. airmen down with them. How many other pilots were wounded, how many other planes came home on a wing and a prayer, no one said...
...stayed below, getting out his men and securing his boilers while the Jap airmen, apparently thinking the Utah, a target ship, was a carrier, gave the craft a savage working over. Tomich went down with her. For his devotion the President of the U.S. made the last entry in his personnel record: the posthumous award of the Medal of Honor...
Range for Escorts. There was more history at Emden. Never in the European theater had fighters traveled so far (350 miles) to meet German defenders. Never had bombers had such protection over a German homeland target. Even the superb Spitfire has a fighting radius less than a third as great...
...Navy will stick to the dive-bomber, which has unquestionably been its most potent air weapon. Its contention: the dive-bomber can dive steeply, even vertically against a target, thus has tremendous accuracy; the fighter bomber has to go in at a shallower angle, thus must allow for a looping trajectory in the fall of the bomb. The pilot must also drop his bomb and pull out at higher altitudes to keep from hitting the ground, or water, or risk pulling his plane apart in a violent recovery. The next twelve months should show which service is right...
...FELL DOWN DEAD - Virginia Perdue - Crime Club ($2). The suspenseful tale of a young bride's discovery that her handsome and plausible husband - a California quack doctor - is a proper target for murder. Exciting, convincing and an excellent job of writing, in the same bracket with Francis Iles's Before the Fact...