Word: aircobra
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...extent and nature of the casualties, whether killed or wounded, was not disclosed. But it was evident the airdrome itself was not impaired for Army Aircobra fighters took off the same day and made a retaliatory raid against enemy ground positions...
Near Long Island's Mitchel Field one last week, Lieut. Roy W. Scott of the Air Forces saw sudden trouble on the instrument board dials of his swift Bell Aircobra. With his Allison engine revving at critically high speed (ground witnesses his suspected his propeller control had gone of whack), he headed for home, was too late by a tragic few seconds...
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