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IMPACT August 1944 60 Pages.
Vol. 2 No. 8
Articles Inside:
Air War against Japan
(Wojte)
Map of Air Offensive
First Long Look At Kuriles By Day
Four Liberators Fight Off Fighters On Daring Mission
(Paramushiro; 11th AF)
Mosaic of Matsuwa Base
Japanese Are Left To Rot In Marshalls As 7th AF Stabs Towards Tokyo
Saipan Becomes New US Base
(P-61 “Black Widows” at Kwajalein Base)
Softening-Up Of Noemfoor By AAF Helps Unopposed Landing On 2 July
(P-47s)
5th AF Wrecks Ships, Planes
(A-20s Attack Manokwari)
Truk And Yap Take The Rap
AAF In CBI Helps Ground Troops Trap Japanese Troops
(Supplies Dropped At Myitkyina)
Air Gets A Bouquet
AAF Cameras Pry Out Japanese Homeland’s Secrets
First Mosaic of Yawata Steel Mills and the Surrounding Industrial
Sasebo Is A Major Naval Base
German Fuel Situation Is Now Precarious
Decreased Capability of All Fronts Looms As Spectre for Thirsty Wehrmacht
(Bratislava Refinery, Torrito, Rome, Porto Marghera)
Hit Parade, Italy
Closeups Show How MAAF Cut Enemy Communications
(Viterbo, Ostiense, Pescara, Tiburtina)
Rail Havoc
ATC Operates a New Skyway to Siberia
(Alaska Lend-lease Route)
Catalogue of ATC Bases
(Great Falls, East Base; Edmonton, Grand Prairie, Watson Lake, Whitehorse, Big Delta, Ladd Field)
Galena Blues: River Stay ‘Way from My Door
Reds Take Planes From Ladd Field
(A-20s; At Nome, Soviet Officers Dance With American Beauties)
New Strip in Normandy View from Air
(Ninth Engineer Command)
Air Helps in Taking Cherbourg
Navy TAI Men Make Big Saipan Haul (Navy Technical Air Intelligence)
24 Japanese Planes Nipped Under Nip Noses During Battle
(Saipan Plane Salvage; Aslito Airfield)
Triple-Threat Air Attack Given Punch by Rockets
Artillery Effect Steps Offensive Power
(B-25H with 6 rockets)
England Suffers a New Blitz as the Germans Strike with the V-1 Robot Flying Bomb
Fighters Are Racking Up Best Score Against Vengeance Bomb
Balloons and AA Help as Bombardment Continues
(Typical Ski Site Sketch; Yvrench, Sorellerie, Vignacourt)
Pressure Suit Eases “G” Forces On Pilots
Power Boost Stick Reduces Pilot Fatigue
Now We Bomb from USSR
(325th; 8th AF, Gen. Permonov, Gen Walsh; Debreczen Hit, Foscani, Rumania; S/Sgt. Tom Summers of Texas with Lt. Vorkov of Leningrad)
Russians Greet Us but the GAF Got There, Too
Drohobych, in Path of Red Army, Hit by 8th
(Normandy; Irrawaddy Bridges Hit; Budapest/Szony Hit, Guilianova Bridge Destroyed; Tiger Tank And Two 88s Strafed; Civitavecchia Hit)
Bomb Kayo Guns