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IMPACT          November 1944          52 Pages

Vol. 2 No. 11

Cover: 130 MPH Human Pick-Up

Articles Inside:

Criss-Crossing Thunderbolts Guard 8th AF Forts

ETO Strategic Sluggers Still Slugging Hard
     (Rostock)
     New Targets Are Added To The Old Favorites
     8th AF blasts Peenemunde
     Ordnance Production In Silesia And Ruhr Being Whittled Down
     Truck, Tank Factories Smashed
     (Fallersleben, Bremen, Borgward)

8th AF Target Damage
     (Standard Oil, Gennevilliers in Paris, Hispano Suiza, Renault Plant in Paris)

New And Improved P-47 Has Much More Range
     (The XP-47N)

Interdiction in France
     (German tanks, M/T were cut to pieces; Belfort yard battered)
     How Air Can Perform the Enormous Task of Isolating a Battlefield
     Here Is How Interdiction Worked In Winning the Battle Of France
     Seine River Interdiction Line
     No Road Safe For The Wehrmacht
     German Tanks, M/T Were Cut To Pieces
     Belfort Yard Battered

The Widows Begin Biting
     (Black Widows, P-61, over France)

Thunderbombers
     P-38 “Droopsnoot” Photo Plane Follows MAAF P-47s To Obtain Striking Low-Level Obliques

Burning Ploesti

P-47 First Carrier Ride Into Combat
     From Hawaii to Saipan They Went to Hit Japs

Far-Flying 21st Squadron Makes Recon History
     Fruits of Their Labors — Mukden To Manila
     (F-5 Frantic; Major G.H. Fulcher, Major W. Nicholls, Lt. Col. John C. Foster; Mukden to Manila, Takao, Okayama, Bangkok, Corregidor, Cap St. Jacques)

Strategic Factors as We Advance Toward Japan
     As Ship Losses Mount, Japs Rely On China’s Rail System
     War Factors in Far East, Formosa
     Industry May Rot For Lack Of Material
     Formosa: Jap Bastion and Supply Base

Grand Strategy Unfolds-We Are In Philippines
     (Philippines Invasion, Leyte, Dulag)

Neutralizing Iwo Jima

B-24 Gets New Nose

Superforts vs. Nips

Dramatic Rescue Method Tested
     (Human Pick-up; Pvt. Constantine Stiakatis, H.C. Conway)

Night attack on U-Boat