Word: airmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bill Kendall, the Australian boy who was well on his way toward making swimming history at Harvard until he decided to leave college in the spring of 1938, is now in his native Australia waiting to join a contingent of airmen bound for the Western front...
...bombardment to date occurred when new-type bombs whistled down on Barcelona New Year's Eve, 1938. At various times dozens of Fascist bombers operated in formation over Spain and, according to German accounts, as many as 800 attacked Polish fortifications in concert last month. But to airmen the world over this still remains white-chip stuff...
...airmen's Mahan is General Giulio Douhet, an Italian artilleryman who survived War I to propound the doctrine that air power is the decisive power. The Douhet theory holds that major wars can be won, and won quickly (while ground troops are mobilized as they are on the Western Front), by unrestricted mass destruction poured on civilian populations, their communications and utilities, from thousands of airplanes carrying hundreds of tons of bombs. So far War II has seen...
...circumvent these difficulties, Sir Kingsley Wood last week announced a vitally new plan: Canada, where are to be found both clear weather and flying room, would become the advanced training centre for military airmen of the whole British Empire. When the machinery was ready, Canada would turn out about 800 skilled airmen every month...
...other two were supposedly in German waters last week: the Deutschland had been bombed by Loyalist Spanish airmen off Iviza, Balearic Islands, the Admiral Graf Spec by the British in their raid on the Wilhelmshaven base...