Description
IMPACT September 1943 52 Pages
Volume 1 No. 6
Cover: B-24s Leaving Burning Ploesti
Articles Inside:
Campaign against Industry – Part I
What strategic bombing does; Renault and Huls Damaged
Repairs Started, No Production Yet
Huls Plant Was Knocked Out
Campaign against Industry – Part II, Record Week for 8th
Heroya, Hamburg, Blohm and Voss shipyards; Hanover – largest tire plant; Warnemunde; Oschersleben, Kassel
Campaign against Industry – Part III, Ploesti Oil Mission
Astra-Romana; Creditul Miner; Colombia-Aquila
What Tropical Clouds Mean
Combined Operations against Kiska
Air-Naval attack on 22 July helped hurry Japs out; cruisers Santa Fe, San Francisco, Louisville, Wichita
Low Level Attack on Runway at Kiska Reveals Detail of Jap Installations
For the Photo-Interpreter
Unusual Harbor and Shipping Installations
Cantilever Pier at Naru Island; Genoa, Bruges
Combat Box
Formations over North Europe
How Large Formation Is Handled
Cause of Death: Accidental
19 members of AAF die in on-ground B-17 explosion
Frank Metzger, Harry Irwin, Thomas Cunningham, John Girs, Loui Palmer, Stanley Banks, Frederick Briske, John Carlisle, Sam Eliah, Clinton Lewis, Alvin McCool, Glen Swarts, Jack Twiford, Howard Welch, Byron Carroll, Wallace Henderson, Frank Baldassaro, Albert Finn, Earl Rogers
Air Aspects of Sicilian Campaign; Gerbini, Palazzola
Troop Carriers Accomplished Large Scale Aerial Delivery; C-47, CG-4A
Some Enemy Air Activity And What We Did About It
Gela, Sicily, Biscari, Catania, Messina
Enemy Transport Hit In Ports, Rail Yards, Airfields And On Wing
Me-323 Shot Down By NW African Coastal Air Force Marauder Off Corsica, Near Cap Corse; Ju-290
Rome: What Was Hit, What Was Not Hit
Lorenzo Rail Yards
Littorio Yards and Airfield; Ciampino Airfield; Palermo
Planning Pays Off
Meet Two Old Friends