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SEPTEMBER 9TH, 1943 U.S.A.A.F. Marauders in action over St. Omer—Fort Rouge airfield. The Marauder can carry either depth charges, torpedoes or bombs, and was first in action in the Pacific in April, 1942. Italy Invaded : Berlin Raided Again : Carriers at Marcus Island : Wewak and Salamana * WHENEVER General Alexanderwins a victory there alwaysensues a pause. During that pause he reorganises and makes most careful preparations for the next step torward, and he will never budge until the preparations are such as to give him a comfortable assurance that the next step forward will go as well as the last one has gone. It was so after Tunisia, and it has also been so after Sicily. During that pause, in which the public at home hears nothing of what the Army is doing, the Mediter- ranean Air Force under Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder fills the news and the sky. Of course, the two men work in the closest collaboration, and Tedder is undoubtedly carrying through plans which he and Alexander have worked out together. After the Axis had been driven out of Tunisia, for about three weeks the aircraft ranged far and wide, attack- ing now here, now there, and confus- ^ \ as to where the next would fall. In the last week concentrated on the Sicilian air- fields with such success that the land- ing was made without any noticeable interference by enemy aircraft. After Sicily had been cleared, the next step was to hammer all the communications between northern and southern Italy, and the Navy joined in the work of the Air Force. Then on the morning of Septem ber 3rd, the very anniversary of the opening of the war, it was announced that British and Canadian troops of the Eighth Army, with support from the sea and air, had landed on FOR CLOSE SUPPORT : Bombing-upa Kittybomber on a Sicilian airfield Two 250 lb. bombs are carried side-by side on external racks under the fuselage.
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