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Air Force Thunderbolts Crush German Armored Column
A wartime dispatch from Ninth Air Force control at a western front station describes in vivid detail the day of air combat against a massive German transport column. Thunderbolt fighter-bombers, guided by a compact control trailer, towered through cloud cover delivering successive strikes with pilots reporting spectacular destruction of trucks tanks and support vehicles.
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Walter
Croneite
United Press
Ninth Air Force Control Station
Western
Front
Falaise
Arizona
Luxembourg
Ardennes
Ellis E. Thompson
Fairfield
N. D
Bernard B. Mackell
Pittsburgh
Fctical Air Force
TAC
William Stephensdale
Ariz
Stephens
Rodger
Dodger