B-29

Usage examples of bomber.

Almost two years ago he had upped and left Acme, Texas, to go out into the wide open world, only to find his own shrunk down to the confining cockpit of a B-17 bomber.

It was agreed that Gray would keep his Wildcats high to preserve the altitude advantage he needed against the agile Zeros, and, at the same time, provide protection for the dive bombers.

The pursuit ships were only faint dots in the sky, the bombers far in the distance, when a huge amphibian showed in the clear mountain air.

The Focke-Wulf and other bombers employed against our shipping must be attacked in the air and in their nests.

Extreme priority will be given to fitting out ships to catapult or otherwise launch fighter aircraft against bombers attacking our shipping.

The duty of affording fighter protection to the naval forces holding Malta should have priority over the use of the aerodromes by bombers engaged in attacking Tripoli.

The lead plane soon reached the area recently bombed by the preceding bombers but the bombardier had no time to study his maps which would have shown what useful targets there might be here.

Bomber Command documents do not record details of cancelled operations, so it is not known what size of force Harris was intending to send on these raids.

Next to him was Charles Copeman, unwounded, waiting to go forward with his bombers.

If a further eight bombers which were so badly damaged by fighter attack over Berlin that they crashed at various places on the return flight are added in, the Wild Boar operation could claim thirty-eight successes.

Many aviation and engineering workshops were damaged around Tempelhof Airport, where two light aircraft parked in the open were destroyed and where a Stirling bomber crashed.

Bomber Command that, throughout the trials of the coming winter, only two more damaged Bombers took refuge in Sweden while raiding Berlin, even though routes often passed close by and the lights of that neutral country must have tempted many a crew.

Two more bombers soon crashed, possibly having been damaged over Berlin, but there were no more losses until a damaged Stirling of 75 Squadron succumbed 160 miles further on near Bonn, breaking into two parts in the air.

Among the buildings listed as damaged were two Henschel aircraft factories and a Daimler-Benz works, the last possibly being damaged by a crashing bomber, and also the Marstall, a famous old Berlin building which had once housed the Imperial horses but was now being used as a library and museum.

That let Dowling see that Confederate bombers had hit it even harder than Philadelphia.