Jimmy Doolittle.
Jimmy Doolittle took command of the 8th Air Force. He'd change escort tactics soon thereafter, allowing escort fighters to fly far ahead of bomber formations to freely engage staged German fighters.
The Red Army captured Rokitno in pre-war Poland. The small city is in Ukraine today.
A joint statement by the RAF and the USAAF disclosed that the US and UK were developing jet aircraft.
Of course, so was nearly everyone else. The Germans, for instance, were certainly developing jet combat aircraft and the Japanese, by way of a request of the Japanese Imperial Navy following its representatives having witnessed a ME 262 test flight in 1942, were as well.
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