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IMPACT          June 1943          48 Pages

Volume 1 No. 3

Air support in Tunisia

Industrial forecast: declining production of motors, tanks and planes in occupied Europe;
     Antwerp plants struck

Renault bombing is example of accuracy and concentration; two stages attack on Focke-Wulf airplane factory in Bremen

Solution of one typical FW-190 attack; Eldon W. Audiss of the Duchess

Jap phosphate industry crippled; Funafuti bombing; Nauru

For the photo-interpreter; Licata, Pantelleria

What AAF drops besides bombs; leaflets
     Kiri leaf, Cormorants, Afrika Korps, Kimon, Surrender Pass

Cruiser Trieste subtracted from the Italian navy

For the record: legitimate military targets hit in Japan; Doolittle raid,
picture of his smashed plane

Wake Island prior to Pearl Harbor and now

Field smothered by fragmentation; Milo airdrome (Trapani, Sicily)
     Fire is result of fragmentation in this attack; Castelvertrano airdrome in Sicily; fragmented and unfragmented bomb in pictures

Kokoda, Oivi-Wairope, Wairope

Air Photos Emphasize Campaign Lessons
     New Guinea Air-Land Offensive Is Made More Realistic By Pictorial Study; Gona, Sanananda, Buna
     Gona mission first to fall; Ayatosan Maru
     Resistance at Buna in two areas
     Allied trenches and photo map of Buna area operations
Sanananda last to fall, holds out three weeks after Buna

Cargoes Of Ammunition Multiply Bomb Effect; Palermo

Softening Japanese in Aleutians; Attu
     Amchitka air field built in a month
     Blow-by-blow account of March 16, a busy day for Kiska

Advice based on 10 months of jungle survival; based on experiences of a B-26 crew
     Marvin C. Hughes, Eugene D. Wallace, Dale E. Bordner

Air Support In Mareth Area
     The Group Visits Area It Bombed

First hand accounts make minimum altitude lessons more specific
     Coordination
     By Capt. John P. Henebry
     Firepower
     By 1st Lt. Roy J. Moore
     Miscellaneous Tips
     By Capt. E. J. Chuboda, 1st Lt. Roy J. Moore and 2nd Lt. Ivan P. Head

Bismarck Sea Postscripts

Smoke Screen at Brest