Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...kind of aerial warfare Air Marshal Gossage had in mind is one with which Europe became familiar in Spain, in Poland, in Finland. It is war waged beyond the lines, against industry and transport, and its victims are civilians huddled in city cellars, women and children hiding in woods, travelers sprawled in ditches along roads and railway tracks. The one man in Europe who knows best how to wage such a war is Göring, for it was he who first created, with incredible speed and efficiency, a machine with which to fight...
...Force is that its machines are all new. Last week correspondents were proudly shown the newest German airplane factory, at Weiner Neustadt, 30 miles south of Vienna. Like all the factories Göring has built since he took charge of the Four-Year Plan and subordinated everything to aerial rearmament, it is in a sparsely settled region and hard to reach by any of Germany's present enemies. Some of the factories are underground, safe from bombardment. They can turn out bombers, fighters and reconnoitering ships at an estimated rate of 2,300 per month, may keep Germany...
...middle-class family during a raid on England by a thousand enemy bombers. Less exciting than Ordeal, Author Shute's An Old Captivity turns to a peacetime theme-the story of a British aviator who pilots an Oxford archaeologist and his daughter to Greenland in order to make aerial surveys of old Norse ruins. At his best in describing the flight itself, Author Shute complicates an already tough undertaking when Archaeologist Lockwood's daughter Alix decides to go along...
...censor whistled up a boatload of marines armed with rifles with fixed bayonets. There are times for heroes, times for diplomats. Forty-two-year-old Captain Lorber was a hero to more than his Baltimore family. He had behind him a record of a million miles of overwater flying, aerial explorations of the Yucatan's Mayan ruins, of Brazil's Mato Grosso jungles. But this was no time for heroes. Captain Lorber gave...
...sparks were flying over the road. People carrying bundles were walking along with children, some with pushcarts, fleeing. Houses on the edge of town were burning fiercely. There was fire everywhere one looked, for Sortavala was a wooden city. . . . All day the city had been subjected to a continuous aerial bombardment by waves of Russian planes, dropping mostly incendiary bombs. . . . This place of 17,000 persons* could not now house a thousand...