Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dodge the soprano-chattering Jap 25-caliber guns. . . . A private, a wire-stringer, carried a heavy steel spool of telephone wire eight miles up & down 60° slopes. . . . There are great squads of anonymous heroes. . . . Perhaps the flyers are the greatest. They have made a record equal to anything aerial anywhere...
...they had felled at least 48, probably destroyed 38 more and damaged 19, while the" Allied fighter escort accounted for five.* The figures were so incredible that the Bomber Command withheld them until they were triple-checked. They added up to little less than a revolution in aerial warfare...
...between a speedy running attack and an increasingly potent passing offensive. Indian hopes to reverse the 1941 result depend on their backfield, one of the finest in the country. Crimson hopes to ring up their second consecutive triumph against the Big Green depend on their passers, not the finest aerial artists in the nation but a good bunch of throwers nevertheless...
Taking the place of regulars on fire trucks, they learn how to handle and operate fire hose, pumps, and aerial ladders in realistic drills. The volunteers lean everything from the fundamentals of a city water supply to the operation of modern fire alarm systems...
Flying Tigers (Republic) is an overlong but unpretentious, genuine tribute to those U.S. volunteer airmen who, against some of the toughest odds in the history of aerial warfare, fought the Japs in the air above China before Pearl Harbor...