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IMPACT          June 1944          52 Pages

Vol. 2 No. 6

Cover: Biggest and Smallest

Articles Inside:

An Airscoop For Mr. Ripley
     A Ship Explodes Sending Secret Paperwork Into Oncoming US Plane

Main Pre-Invasion Attacks Center On Rails, Air Bases
     Europe Pounded by Huge Campaign to Soften up Germany’s Defenses
     (Busigny Rail)
     UK Fighters Are Hot From Deck Up
     (Lt. Peter Pompetti, Lt. Macie V. Marlowe, Lt. Paul A. Conger, Major      Walter Beckham)

Holes In Runways, Roofless Hangars SOP For GAF Fields
     (Nancy-Essey, Gijon-Longvic, Lyon-Bron)
     We Are Attacking Heaviest Rail Concentration On Earth
     (Hasselt Yard, Charleroi, Creil)
     Tonnage Statistics Can Be Misleading
     (Busigny, Namur)
     Gun Positions, Minefields Also Receive Attention
     (Radar Station At Douvres-LaDeliverance, Le Havre-Le Grand Clos,      Maneville-Es-Plains, Cabourg Coastal Mine Belt)
     Air Assault Still Has Its Price

Japanese Kurile Secrets Unmasked At Night
     (Paramushiro, Matsuwa Island)

7th Bomb Group Hits Jackpots
     (Thittabwe, Yenangyaung Oil Plant, Lampang Airfield)

Burma Bridges Falling Down –Again
     (Meza Bridge, Myittha Bridge)

Low Recce For Vital Close-Ups
     (Anzio, Pescara, Italy; Netkovic, Jugoslavia)
     “Kodak As You Go”

First View Of Polish Base
     (Heinkel Factory At Mielec)

Pompeii 1944 A.D.
     (Photos of damaged US planes)

12-Ship Stagger For Heavies Recommended
     (Bomber Formations)

Air Aid For Red Army
     (Balkan, Budapest-Vesces, Nis)
     Storming The Iron Gate
     (Brasov, Campina, Turnu Severin)
     Ploesti Gets Plastered, Too

Air Strip Built Above The Clouds
     (Burma, Kumkidu)

For The Photo Interpreter
     (Different Types Of Cranes, Kiel)

Debut Near For Potent A-26B

Toward Tokio: An Atoll Roost
     (Tarawa, General Truman H. Landon, Kwajalein, Windmill Washing Machine Rigged by Pvt. Bernard Korsgard and Cpl. Joe Burkett)

Hollandia
     (Wake Island, Wotje, General MacArthur)

Army, Navy Pack Double Wallop
     (Woleai Air Base, Palau)

Wingman Plays Role Of “Blocking Back” In Aerial Fighter Combat
     (Lt. John T. Godfrey, Capt. Don Gentile, Lt. Col. Thomas J. Lynch,  Lt. John T. Godfrey)

Teammates Share Two Sallys, Tony
     (Lt. Col. Thomas J. Lynch and Maj. Richard Bong)

More on the B-29

Crippled, but Still in There Pitching
     (Burning Fortress still dropping bombs over Berlin)