Search Details

Word: aircrash (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

There seems little doubt that American involvement must reach the shooting stage. American soldiers have been given orders to shoot if they are shot at--and they will be, if they continue to cover South Vietnamese action. If the ninety U.S. airmen killed on an aircrash on their way to Vietnam are included, over a hundred Americans have already lost their lives by non-direct military participation. And after a few atrocity stories in the American press,--complete with photographs of American boys mutilated by Communist guerillas--this country will be in a fighting mood. Unless America wants to take...

Author: By Kathie Amatniek, | Title: G.I.'s and Guerillas | 4/21/1962 | See Source »

Died. Fritz Todt, 50, German Minister of Munitions and Major General; "in an aircrash"; reportedly somewhere east of Germany. The Nazis' No. 1 builder, he was in charge of military reconstruction in the wake of the Army's advances through Europe. Other Todt jobs: the Siegfried Line, the new Chancellery in Berlin, the Autobahnen, network of superhighways...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 16, 1942 | 2/16/1942 | See Source »

| 1 |