LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Light Bomber: Air Force
built 606 days ago
From late 1967 to mid 1968 306th BW bomber and tanker crews augmented Arc Light & Young Tiger operations by deploying for eight to twelve week TDYs. Bomber missions continued to be flown from Anderson AFB, Guam, but were ... operating out of Kadena AB, Okinawa and U Tapao Royal Thai Airfield, Thailand. U Tapao became operational in April 1967 allowing B-52s to strike most targets and return within two to five hours. In January 1968 the North Koreans seized the USS Pueblo resulting in Operation Port Bow, where 11 additional B-52Ds were deployed to Anderson AFB and 15 B-52Ds to Kadena AB. On 15 February General Westmorland's request to make the Kadena B-52Ds a part of the Arc Light bomber force was approved. Bomber missions from Kadena averaged 7 1/2 hours. The addition of these two forward operating bases allowed increased bomber sortie rates to support the continuing US buildup of ground troops in Vietnam.
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In 1934 Britain’s Air Ministry issued Specification P.4/34, which called for a light bomber that could ... be deployed in a close-support role. Fairey , Gloster and Hawkerall rushed to fulfill this need, and competition was tight to attain the highest performance possible.
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In 1944, with the tide turned against the Germans, the Mosquitos were transferred to the new Light Night Striking Force (LNSF), part of No 100 (Bomber Support) Group. Here, the Mosquitos were tasked with carrying out diversionary raids to attract the defending fighters away from the main bomber stream. These 'spoof' attacks, many of which were against Berlin, were aided by electronic aids to deceive the German radar network into believing that the much smaller Mosquito force was the main attack.
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The Martin Baltimore was a mid-wing, all-metal light attack-bomber. It was an American designed and built bomber, known to the USAF as the A-30, but never used by the US forces. It was a development of the A-22 Maryland with a deeper fuselage. All 1575 built were delivered to the RAF. It carried a crew of four comprised of a pilot, navigator/bomb aimer, radio-operator and top-gunner. The radio operator would ... man a ventral gun position.
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Item: When a target as good as this one is found, B-26 crew members of the 452nd Light Bomb Wing are reluctant to leave it until it has received a thorough working over. The light bombers went in time after time to saturate this nest of enemy barracks in Korea with para-frag bombs in order to make it completely untenable by Communist soldiers. This photograph was taken from the tail of a U.S. Far East Air Forces light bomber which dropped the parachute bombs.
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The Bristol-produced Blenheim light-to-medium bomber was actually derived from a private request for a high-speed passenger transport as put forth by one Lord Rothermere in 1934. The request was to provide the press baron with a spacious twin-engine transport capable of above average performance when compared to other commercial transports of the time. The end result, dubbed the Type 142 and fitted with two Bristol Mercury VIS radial piston engines impressed the British Air Ministry so much (the Blenheim was faster than any current fighter the RAF was fielding at the time) that they ordered a militarized variant to be developed (after seeking permission from Rothermere of course).
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