Word: airmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Because Russia's air force was negligible (during two years' fighting the Squadron saw but one enemy plane), it was at first thought that reconnoitering would be the Kosciuszko unit's principal job. But as the sweeping, open warfare grew more intense, individual battles between airmen and Russian troops became of prime importance. So vicious was the Squadron's strafing that the Soviet Commissars put a price of 12,500 gold rubles on the U. S. flyers' heads, later doubled it. Hawking over enemy territory, pilots would bore down out of the sun, both machine...
Airwomen v. Airmen...
Shortly after turning northward, a bird struck a wing of the big amphibian. Airmen always think this is a bad augury. Halfway to Angmagsalik the party ran into a blinding blizzard that whipped up a nasty sea, blotted out the visibility. Snow so loaded the plane that the speed was cut to 60 m.p.h. Unable to climb above the storm, Pilot Hutchinson dropped to 50 ft. With windshields caked with snow, he dodged icebergs and cliffs until forced to make a practically blind landing. Drift ice punctured a pontoon. Radioman Gerald Altfilisch sent out SOS calls and their position, soon...
...this testimonial of their enthusiasm, the decisive victory of the Marne." Was There a Battle? Instead of planning a last stand or ''Battle of the Marne" Papa Joffre had ordered a retreat to the Seine when General Joseph Simon Galliéni learned through one of his airmen of an amazing German move. Though Germany's Armies on the Western Front had slashed through Belgium and Northern France until they were almost in sight of Paris, their swift advance had suddenly been halted by orders from General von Moltke's High Command-clue apparently to terrific...
...bombing planes engaged upon a peaceful "reconnaissance" do when wantonly fired upon by Chinese soldiers from the ground? If they fired, the Chinese marksmen brought down no Japanese plane. But the Japanese bombs killed scores of Chinese, wrecked the ordnance factory at Chaoyang. Chinese claimed that after the Japanese airmen had dropped 30 bombs they lingered over the city, spraying it indiscriminately with their machine guns...