Over the Bordeaux-Merignac aerodrome in southwestern France, pilots find it wise to buzz the field once before trying to land. Buzzing disperses the sheep that graze contentedly between the runways. At one end of the field the 126th Bombardment Wing of the U.S. Air Force makes its headquarters.
The 126th's communications office operates in the only usable portion of a sag-roofed shack set amidst girders of a bombed-out hangar. Most of the wing's 48 B-26 bombers are bunched like sitting ducks on a tiny concrete apron before the hangar. One or two, not finding room on the apron, squat dismally on the...
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