Word: achtung
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Dates: during 1942-1942
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Nazi U-boat commanders have good cause this week to cry: Achtung! (Look out!) and crash-dive. Coming at them at hitherto unattainable speed is an improved type of U.S. subchaser powered by an extraordinary new engine and driven by an extraordinary new propeller...
British pursuit pilots will still call to one another their sporting "Tallyho" as they sight the enemy and plunge out of formation to attack. The serious Germans will still rasp their guttural "Achtung! Achtung!" as they spot the foe. But the gallant, hell-for-leather professional pilots of the American Volunteer Group suddenly glimpsing a Jap formation will no longer have reason to exchange their gleeful call: "Certified check...