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IMPACT          September 1944          56 pages

Vol. 2 No. 9

Cover: Ploesti — 18 August    Scene from the Final Act

Articles Inside:

AAF Power in Europe
     Growth of AAF Power in Europe
     The Bombing Record
     Aircraft Industry
     Bloody Sky Battles Fought in Campaign to Wreck GAF
     Oil Campaign Begins To Immobilize German Armies
     Other German War Economy “Bottlenecks” Are Blasted
     Communications
     Big Tonnages Clog Movement of Enemy Troops, Supplies
     Ports, Subs
     Kiel, Toulon Were No. 1 Targets
     Launching Sites
     Robots Slowed, Not Stopped
     GAF Smashed on Ground, Too
     Airfields

Fighters on the Offensive
     Military Targets
     All-out AAF Effort Is Big Factor in Ground Advances
     AAF Fighters Emerge As Great Offensive Weapon
     End of Trains, Planes
     Unleashed Fighters Breaking All Sortie Records

The Dazzling P-80

German Jet Aircraft Are Tested In Battle
     GAF (German Air Force) Jet Plane Combat

The B-32 Dominator
     New Very Heavy Bomber Being Groomed to Join B-29 in Strategic Campaigns
     B-32—Plenty of Room for Bombs in Its Giant Fuselage

Arms and Rice for China’s Army
     Supply by Air in China

Bombing through Smoke
     H2X Bombing is Even Better
     Discipline Lapse Downs This B-17

The Flak Is Getting Rougher

Hun Hard at Work on V-2 Rocket

Six Abreast Takeoffs and Landings
     Time-Saving Joinup System is Adopted by 319th Group

New Fire Bomb with Napalm Jell Is Hottest Thing This Side of Hell

B-29’s Bomb Bays Are Really Big—Can Tote 2440 Gallons of Gas

29s Hit Jap Steel

P-38s Over England