Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Champion's Champion. Roy Brown's greatest moment came in the early morning of April 21, 1918. He had been in almost daily aerial combat on the western front for 14 months. His nerves were dangerously taut. Said he: "Milk and brandy were my only food [for two weeks]. ..." That morning he swooped unseen behind an Albatross, bagged the famed, ferocious Red Knight of Germany, Baron Manfred von Richthofen...
...spite of the increasing intensity of aerial warfare, no U.S. flyer has yet been able to beat Captain Eddie Rickenbacker's alltime record of 26 kills in World...
Blow upon Blow. It was also the beginning of a new aerial offensive. While medium bombers and fighters worked over the invasion coast, the R.A.F. Bomber Command came back again. Leipzig took more than 2.500 tons...
...flyers wearing as many as 14 decorations. But something is being done about it. This month President Roosevelt ordered Secretaries Knox and Stimson to formulate regulations for a new medal, the Bronze Star, to be awarded Army, Navy and Marine Corps personnel "for heroic or meritorious service not involving aerial flight," i.e., a sort of Air Medal for ground and surface forces...
...Master's Horn. That valley is only one concentration point in England's countryside. A lovely forest, part of a lord's estate, covers a mammoth ammunition dump of 80,000 tons of aerial bombs, shells of all calibers. In steel huts are 33,000,000 rounds of one type of shell. The master and his family, who live in this volcanic world with calm aplomb, have turned over most of the manor house to U.S. officers. Relations between manor and mess are happy, especially so since the day U.S. troops pumped out the manor house...