First showing of two airborne radar fire control types now becoming operational AN/APG-5, on B17 turret above, is one of ARO (Airborne Range Only) group; it does for flexible gunery what Falcon, another ARO, does for fixed gunnery AN/APG-8, below is AGS (Airborne Gun Sighting). Improved version, APG-15, is being installed in B-29 tail turret to give pointblank machine gun protection

14TH AF PROJECT. Three B-25Hs got operational tests in China during June 1944 under Major P. J. Riemar. Two were fitted and flown from Eglin Field, another was fitted with spare equipment in the field. Major General Claire L. Chennault, who saw Falcon as a way to get at Jap river traffic supplying the central China invasion, briefed the crews first. He acquainted them with the Jap strategy, moving shipping along the Yangtze after dark, anchoring during daytime with large gunboats hovering nearby. Long range firing seemed a likely answer. Against such opposition 3 test missions were flown, the following results noted: Against gunboats on the Yangtze, with fighter cover by 13 P-38s, firing began at 6,000 yards and broke off at 2,000, with most firing around 4,700. Forty-two rounds were fired by the 3 aircraft and a considerable number of hits recorded. The gunboats, about the size of small destroyers, were heavily armed with AA guns up to 40mm. During 35 minutes over the target no sinkings were noted. Twelve hits seen, many probables, out of 61 rounds against Changsha shipping. One cargo ship, I fuel boat and several small motorpowered cargo boats sunk. Two B-25Hs, the pilot of one firing the 75mm. for the first time, made a one hour sweep along the Yangtze. One large steamer and 4 riverboats destroyed. Total damage to all B-25Hs on all missions was I flak hole. Falcon's tests *are finished now. The present job is to figure ways---the base problem being what it is---to get planes into combat. The 14th AF, striking against Jap river traffic deep in China's provinces, has the best chance. Other AF's are primed for its use as soon as takeoffs become possible. With Falcon by day and LAB by night, they have a double-barreled menace against Jap shipping that is slated for plenty of action as the forces come to closer grips in the months to come.