capable of carrying a larger payload than early B-17s and boasting a range of 1,150 miles. Its versatility and ruggedness were legendary. It could sink a ship. Strafed enemies on the ground. Crippled tanks. Destroyed entrenched pillboxes and shot down numerous fighters and bombers in all thea...
These notes were dropped by B-25 bombers drawn from the 32nd Bomber Group of the 13th Air Force. He claimed that his unit often punched holes in the propaganda notes so that they could not be used by the Japanese in areas they still controlled. Many decades after I wrote this article,...
In the late summer of 1940 German bombers for the first time began their raids on Dockland. I was one of a small company who went down to the East End in early mornings with Bob Boothby, then Under-Secretary to the Ministry of Food. We took with us a mobile canteen which provided hot...
我们偶尔会看见头顶上数以百计飞机的凝結尾流 这些飞机正向东行进对敌军进行轰炸 Overhead we occasionally see the contrails of hundreds of our bombers heading east to pound the enemy. 你做的很好 孩子 You get them good, boys. 我们很快就会到那里 Well be there soon. 有人hearts;大hearts;喊开始行动...
Build a squadron, switch between planes to utilize maximum potential of each machine – fast and well armored Junkers D.II is a perfect choice to fight bombers, while highly manoeuvrable Fokker Dr. I is designed for efficient dogfight. Airco DH.2 with its wide-open cockpit will guarantee ...
Maybe the unescorted AVMF bombers can take out the Turkish navy with long range AshM The Straits would have been mined and the Turks would have stationed coastal batteries that would damage Soviet ships. Even then, the straits could also be blocked with ships. The Turkish Navy can be dam...
On Sunday, 7th December, 1941, 105 high-level bombers, 135 dive-bombers and 81 fighter aircraft attacked the US Fleet at Pearl Harbor. The damage caused was initially underestimated: "The Japanese, without any warning, yesterday afternoon began war on the United States with air attacks on the...
Build a squadron, switch between planes to utilize maximum potential of each machine – fast and well armored Junkers D.II is a perfect choice to fight bombers, while highly manoeuvrable Fokker Dr. I is designed for efficient dogfight. Airco DH.2 with its wide-open cockpit will guarantee ...
Two campaigns for Triple Entente and one for Central Powers will let you experience all major fronts of World War I – you'll fly above most countries that participated in the conflict in various types of mission. Pilot fighters and bombers. Protect or destroy ground targets. Face mighty zeppe...
(the U.S. Admiral who commanded the strike on Kiska) moved again. His objective was to establish an airfield within fighter distance of Kiska.so that bombers could be escorted all the way there and back. The Army Air Force wanted it (the new airfield) on Tanaga Island, 160 miles east ...