Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1942 — Page 33

is Blasted.

By HENRY T. GORRELL : United Press Staff Correspondent AN ADVANCED R.A PF B, Sept: 23 (Delayed) —I flew

Benghazi tonight in an Ameri-n-made Liberator bomber while

¢ info a flaming ell. he Germans and Italians, in the ‘the chaos below, stabbed at the skies with their searchlights and - anti-aircraft fire, trying: to kill Youths from the four corners of the world, ‘manning. big allied bombers, have learned _to know death well. ; - 1 saw them in ac- : : Mr. Gorrell ; tion tonight and ‘watched their mad contortions. From the bowels of tite Liberator, watched huge missiles of death d destruction’ rain down on . Benghazi harbor. ‘Tll Say They Did”

Tomorrow ' the official communi-

‘que probably will say: “Heavy |

bombers of the United”States army ‘and the royal air force bombed ‘Benghazi and Tobruk during the t of Sept, 22-23.” Tl say they did! / | Young fellows from New York, ‘Boston, Chicago and San Francisco, and similar places, set the pace ‘with a dusk attack. They left :in their wake spectacular blazes of ‘ships stores as beacons to guide ‘the bombers when they arrived. It ‘was an awesome sight, The R. A. F. and the U. 8. army _ *air force left behind them the burning wreckage of at least two ships that had brought war materials to north Africa for Adolf Hitler's in‘vading armies. ~All our: planes returned safely.

Saw Fires Miles Away

| “The Yanks are going: in‘ first,” the R. A. F. wing commander had told his’ Liberator crews just before the zero hour. “There probably will be fires to guide your bombs.” ~ We saw the fires miles away as we winged toward Benghazi at an altitude requiring the use of oxygen - masks. The night fighters were gbout and the British squadron, going into follow up the American dusk attack had spread out with

the order:

‘Every plane for itself and make very bomb count.” I listened to the - navigators : monotone as he checked the course “over the intercommunication phones. The temperature soon hit zero. Over and over, the navigator sing-songed ‘position and corrected the Liberator’s course. “And through it all the guns on firing.

‘We Found Our Target’

#Can you make if out, Vic,” I the pilot say/ “It looks like Jerry's laid down a smoke screen.” “No, it's that ship on fire. And there's a dummy fire over there. Jerry must think we're fools.” Then the fire controller was talk{ng excitedly over the interphones: “Hello, beam gunner, tail gunner =ifighters. approaching. Fire 'de-

Then we found | our target and tite ‘bombardier took over as we ‘ran through the searchlights, The “bomb doors. were open; ‘Hold her steady. Okay, skipper, bombs .gone.” The fire observer broke in: “Betget out of it, skipper, they're ging up on us.”

r for the second bomb. run. our bombs were gone but show wasn’t over. As we apC ad Tobruk, the fire controller ced: “Fighter approaching ard AT sir, It’s a junkers

The Hur failed to see us, although le were silhouetted against the cirgoing on at Tobruk, which was

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