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Single-Engine Aircraft Construction: Focke-Wulf assembly and component plants hit at Bremen (considerable damage, plant abandoned), Kassel (one considerable, one negligible), Oschersleben (light), Warnemunde (light), Marienburg (devastated), Anklam (most severe); Messerschmitt 109G plants severely damaged at Regensburg and Wiener-Neustadt; Paris Renault plant heavily damaged...
...Fighter at three o'clock." The right gun spurted at a Focke-Wulf boring in, his guns winking red and yellow. He was close enough to show that he was painted a dusky blue, not black, with white crosses on the wing and fuselage. The gun followed as he passed close below us, smoke ribboning from his tail...
...they have made 5,238 operational sorties, in fighter sweeps and escorting high-flying Fortresses over France and the Low Countries. Their records have led Major General Ira Eaker, commander of the Eighth Air Force, to boast that the Army now has an airplane which can outfight the Focke-Wulf 190, top German high-altitude fighter...
Over Sicily the American B-25 bombers dropped their greetings, were promptly jumped by 20 Nazi Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulfs. Down to the bombers' aid dived an escort of P-40 Warhawks. First Lieut. Charles Hall turned neatly inside two Focke-Wulfs, slapped a burst of tracers into the second plane, followed it down, saw it crash in a towering cloud of dust. Back at his base, Lieut. Hall received special congratulations from General Dwight D. Eisenhower. His Focke-Wulf was the first enemy plane to be shot down by the Negro fighter squadron commanded by Lieut. Colonel Benjamin...
...aircraft recognition. On many raids their new fighter escorts are Republic Thunderbolts (P-47s) which have just entered the battle of Europe. And in the swirling confusion of a battle with pursuit planes, the broadnosed, round-bodied P47 can easily be mistaken for the Germans' best fighter: Focke-Wulf's famed...