Word: aircrafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thermit incendiary bombs* set the west end of Helsinki ablaze. Other prime targets were the ports of Viipuri, Kotka, Hangö, Turku and Vaasa, the big power plant at Imatra, gas mask factory at Lahti. After unloading their bombs, the planes swooped to machine-gun their objectives. Finnish anti-aircraft guns and fighting planes shot down a dozen or more Red attackers, whose pilots expressed surprise. They had been told it was safe to bomb anywhere in Finland. One of the pilots taken was an 18-year-old girl. Three fliers who fell into the hands...
...largest vaults, and during World War I built most of the U. S. Army's howitzers. Now York Safe & Lock Co. is completing a big plant addition for armament production, is hard at work building carriages for the U. S. Army's three-inch anti-aircraft guns. The carriages are so intricate that the dismantled parts take up 52 square feet of floor space, and the most that can be produced is ten or twelve per month. The company also had on its books a big Government order for tank armor...
...training in the First Corps Cadets, an Anti-Aircraft Coast Artillery Regiment, prepares a man for a commission in one of the most inodern branches of the service. The equipment is the very latest issued. (For a better picture of the equipment and training, I refer those interested to an article, "Can They Bomb Us" by Fletcher Pratt which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post of December...
Even if Canada gets only the drippings from the British order spigot, the Canadian aircraft industry has growth ahead. If the war lasts long enough and orders are big enough, Canada by war's end will not in future have to buy her planes from U. S. makers...
LONDON--British bombers today were said to have scored "direct hits" on a German cruiser and other German warships near Helgoland to have shot down an attacking plane, and to have run safely a gaunflet of anti-aircraft to their bases...