Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...company tear and blast their way across Germany to the Dutch frontier with blood, sweat, and doubletalk. They are captured innumerable times by the Gestapo, but since, as everybody knows, the Germans don't eat Wheaties, the picture ends with their inevitable escape to England in a captured bomber...
Primary Turin targets were the Royal Arsenal, the Fiat truck and plane plants, the Caproni bomber factory, the Montecatini chemical works. Observers reported that a great pall of smoke lay over the city. At one point flames from a factory shot up 8,000 feet in the air like the plume of a live volcano...
...idea had its inception last spring at the burgeoning new twin-engine advance flying school near Columbus, Miss. Columbus' stand-by plane is the Lockheed Hudson (A29) trainer-bomber, used in the transition between advance trainers and the really "hot" twin-engine bombers like the fast-flying, fast-landing Martin...
...handle, but it is mighty hot to fledglings whose most advanced experience has been in an AT- 9 . Yet "The Duck" found instructors who had flown Hudsons only two or three hours. Joe Duckworth was horrified. Two years ago they would not let a man sit in a bomber before he had flown 1,000 hours...
...companies few are busier with critical war work than Bendix Aviation Corp., suppliers of nearly 150 high-precision parts for every big Army bomber. Last week Bendix officials faced an other big time-consuming job: to answer a civil suit filed by Thurman Arnold's Anti-Trust Division in the New Jersey courts, charging conspiracy to choke competition and peg prices in aircraft accessories...