Word: aced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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China has also an ace to offer the U.S. in return for war materials: bases. There are airfields in Chinese territory under the Chinese flag almost to the Pacific coast itself. From them some day U.S. bombers may swipe at Japan...
Doug Pirnie, ace sprinter, will not compete against the Jumbos in either the broad-jump or the 35-yard dash, since Jaakko wants him to rest up from his recent gridiron exploits...
Thus Nazi Germany last week paid last honors to Ernst Udet, World War I ace, once best of the international aerobats, exponent of parachute troops and glider warfare. He had developed the dive-bombing tactics of the deadly Stuka after observation of U.S. Navy planes ten years ago. Adolf Hitler gave him sole credit for Luftwaffe efficiency, "which has made it the best air arm in the world...
...known as the Ace With Nine Lives, and he knew flying in all its phases -from production and planning to fighting and stunting. In a profession steeped in superstition his luck was legendary, and he was his own most faithful believer. When only 16 he launched a glider from a hill near Munich, crashed ingloriously in a cabbage patch. To gaping villagers, he cracked that the vicinity's "magnetic attraction" made flying impossible. Like Hermann Göring, he flew with Richthofen's Flying Circus, and his bag of 62 planes was second only to the Baron...
Died. Colonel Werner Mölders, 28, German flying ace; in an air crash near Breslau...