Word: aircrafters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...torpedo-carrying motor boats, the square-sterned anti-submarine net-layers Protector and Guardian and the antiaircraft ships, Coventry and Curlew. Old light cruisers about ready to be decommissioned, these ships have had, their superstructures swept clear and their decks jammed with batteries of the very latest electrophonic anti-aircraft guns and high-powered searchlights...
...destroyers, 20 submarines, 12 minesweepers, three destroyer tenders, three submarine tenders, one rescue vessel, one repair ship, four oil-carriers, two storeships, the hospital ship, and three auxiliaries. To San Francisco for the May 28 dedication of the Golden Gate Bridge go the fleet's ten battleships, four aircraft carriers, 14 heavy cruisers, seven light cruisers, and four plane guard destroyers...
...Muroc air war, had spotted an outline of Greater Los Angeles on the desert with circles and triangles representing such legitimate combatant bomb targets as munitions plants, railheads, bridges. First blood last week went to Brigadier General Gerald C. Brant's attacking force which theoretically blasted the Douglas Aircraft factory at Culver City to bits...
Helium for Hydrogen-Inquiries by all authorities soon passed over sabotage (incendiary bullets) as the cause of the disaster. Next discussed was static electricity, harges of which all aircraft accumulate, especially when flying in thunderstorm areas. The fact that the Hindenburg's, ground lines had been down for three minutes before the blaze began, thus presumably drawing off all static charges, opposed this theory...
...Knitsley started to run back to the shelter of nearby Santander, still held by Leftists. High in the air there suddenly appeared a flight of Leftist bombing planes. The 15,45 2-ton Espana was launched 24 years ago, but she had been recently fitted with new German anti-aircraft guns. Watchers on shore could see them go into action, white woolly puffs bursting all round the circling bombers. What happened next was a splendid moot point for naval historians. Loyalists say one of their air bombs plopped straight down the Espana's funnel. Rebels insist that the Espana...