Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Clark Gable, who wanted to be an aerial gunner when he joined the Army last August, got his wish: he graduated from the Army Air Forces Gunnery School at Florida's Tyndall Field, was assigned to Fort George Wright, Wash., where bomber crews for combat duty are trained...
Died. Rosalinde Maclardy, Lady Tedder, wife of Air Marshal Sir Arthur William Tedder, commander of the R.A.F. in the Middle East; in an air crash near Cairo. The Marshal's elder son, Arthur, of the R.A.F., was killed in aerial combat over France...
...that of a well-balanced man. In World War I, men's nerves snapped from inactive confinement to trenches under shellfire; in World War II, they break down from long-continued bombardment and strafing without the advantage of shelter. (Artillery fire anxiety is usually worse than that from aerial bombing-when a big gun gets the range, a man begins to feel that each shell has his number...
...sell Darlan & Co. to the U.S., people on a long-term basis,* it may have been because they expected a long fight in North Africa. Said Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold, chief of the Army Air Forces: "We are up against a cross section of the whole German aerial might." Before the campaign's end, General Arnold foresaw a struggle "which almost certainly will determine supremacy in the air over the Mediterranean, and possibly will determine aerial supremacy over Europe...
...similar difficulty attaches to Air Combat Trainer, which has been approved by the National Aeronautic Association. On a large board, picturing a photographic aerial map, players place planes which maneuver into combat, one player operating a fighter force which tries to prevent the other's bombers from hitting objectives below: power plant, docks, reservoir, bridge, etc. The game's defect is its complexity, which results from impossible situations, e.g., the spinner will often indicate moves to be made which the player cannot sensibly make...