Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...across to catch up with the troops converging east of Turin. Il Duce, who had flown his own plane from Rimini, watched the maneuvers from the air. He swooped low over the columns crossing the Ticino and was reported to be "pleased at the way they hid themselves from aerial observers...
...navy second to none. The United States must cease leading the disarmament movement by example." He pushed the Vinson Bill authorizing construction of 101 new ships at a cost of half a billion dollars; he upped the Navy's enlisted personnel to 100,000, authorized the creation of aerial landing facilities on Guam, Midway and Wake Islands, threatened to fortify all trans-Pacific naval bases if Japan won parity with the U. S. By the end of 1935 he could say: "I am pleased to report that the Navy is in a very high state of efficiency and morale...
...less than those due a visiting ruler. A tank escort, a military guard at the Brazilian Embassy, a chat with Franklin Roosevelt, tea with Cordell Hull, the personal attentions of Chief of Staff Malin Craig are part of the Washington ritual. Ranking generals will then accompany him on an aerial tour of U. S. Army posts, with appropriate reviews and banquets...
...another job for his designers. What was now needed, he said, was a bomber that could defend itself against fighters. Since it could no longer outspeed them, its only chance to stay in the air lay in giving it enough maneuverability and fire power to hold its own in aerial combat...
Distinctive national insignia for fighting planes were originated early in the World War so that in the split-second action of aerial dogfights pilots could quickly identify friendly planes, would fire on none by mistake. After the War their use soon spread to all the world's air forces. Even with camouflage they will probably be used in the next great war, both for their identification factor and because the sight of friendly wings overhead is a morale builder for ground troops. As the flags of nations have disappeared from modern battlefields, they thus reappear, in new forms...