Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gave little cheer to those who wish to believe that Britain's navy is mistress of the seas. On the contrary, it was reserved for the pride of Hitler's navy to prove for the first time that even the mightiest unescorted battleship cannot long withstand an aerial attack. And in the air, Germany has all the advantage...
...Aerial reconnaissance warned the British last Thursday that the Bismarck and her escort, the 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen, had left the Norwegian port of Bergen for a dash for the open sea to raid the Atlantic convoys. Powerful units were at once mobilized to intercept them. At dawn Saturday, she was engaged by the Hood and the Prince of Wales. The Hood was destroyed "with very few survivors" by a lucky hit on her powder magazine at a range of more than 13 miles. But in the battle the Bismarck was slowed down...
...Aerial Survey. In Hertfordshire, England, the leader of an outdoor nudist colony said all the followers had got used to the R.A.F.'s low-altitude reconnaissance flights, hoped the R.A.F. would get used to the followers sometime...
...more than ever before, a book on air power written by so eminent an authority as Major Al Williams would seem to meet a vital need. But Major Williams' work itself is bound to disappoint the reader who hopes for a clear-cut expression of what's what in aerial warfare. When Major Williams is discussing such matters as fixed-pitch versus controllable-pitch propellers, his writing is clear and forthright, and it isn't hard to sense the assurance of a man who knows his business and enjoys talking about it. When he talks of engines and wing-structures...
...said: "When you're going into it you think 'What fun,' and when it's over you think 'How bloody dangerous.' " But the terrible battle for the skies always gets back to earth-especially to London, whose British composure under aerial siege is a puzzle and a worry to the Nazis. Says Reporter Graebner in his closing report: "Nothing that's happened in the war so far has excited Londoners...