Word: aircraftsmen
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...Four R.A.F. aircraftsmen (ground crewmen) tugged and shoved at a Spitfire bogged in the sands of an African desert. When they finally freed the plane the South African pilot gunned his engine and took o f Then he noticed that the tail was heavy. In his cockpit mirror he saw the image of a wind-blown figure on the tail-no gremlin, but an aircraftsman who had not let go in time. The pilot quickly landed. Hopping from the fuselage, the aircraftsman respectfully asked whether the pilot was all right. The pilot returned the question. Said the aircraftsman: "The slip...
Some 3,000,000 will in a sense have dinner on a brisk, sandy-haired little man: Lieut. General Lesley James McNair, Chief of the Army Ground Forces. It is he who is training the new Army's doughboys, anti-aircraftsmen, field artillerymen, tankers, cavalrymen-all except the airmen and the Services of Supply-for the toughest war any U.S. army ever had to fight...
General Hirschauer had a nice problem on his hands. The Luftwaffe had already let Germans know that as long as the Russians held out it would need the bulk of its strength on the eastern front. That put a bigger load than ever on the anti-aircraftsmen.. Yet the cities the Russians now bombed could not have adequate defenses, for the defenses were needed elsewhere. Chiefly they were needed in the tight Ruhr rectangle (15 miles wide and 35 miles long), where 51% of German industry is still concentrated...
...what was, aeronautically, a pop fly began when the Jap raided Port Moresby. Beyond flicking fragments from his daisy-cutter bombs through the tents of two sergeants and every stitch of their clothing, he did little damage. What rocked the United Nations force was that its crack anti-aircraftsmen, who had been nipping Nip bombers consistently (see p. 44), got not a single hit. It was a rotten show...
...after a few days most of them turn up okay. They take particular pride in one anti-aircraft unit. Last week it shot down five bombers. An American colonel commanding the Moresby anti-aircraft unit was so pleased he gave five pounds donation towards beer for the anti-aircraftsmen-when & if beer arrives...