Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force's notion, in brief, is that the most destructive counterblows can be delivered by very heavy, long-range bombers, land-based. This thesis was propounded by Air Force General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz and vehemently seconded by Stuart Symington, who as a civilian producer of bomber gun turrets had visited London during the blitz and had never forgotten what he had seen there. Ground-force generals agreed with Spaatz...
...heavy-bomber group: 30 planes, 886 men; a fighter group: 75 planes, 439 men. A group is commanded by a colonel...
Thirty-six hundred boys bunked in a wartime bomber plant and commuted to conference sessions in a fleet of 60 buses. The basement of Cleveland's massive Public Auditorium housed 1,600 girls (a minor crisis developed when they found only one mirror to every ten young ladies). Twenty-five Methodist bishops turned out for the occasion, as well as a couple of hundred foreign delegates...
...Mosquito fighter-bomber, landing, had crashed into a parked Dakota, transforming both into a ballooning cloud of orange fire and black smoke. Out of the cloud ran the pilot, streaming flame, to shrivel and die before their eyes. At that moment Forrester realized an important fact. Ever since he had lost his wife in a bomb blast in London he had been trying coldly to get himself killed in combat. Now he knew that he didn't, after all, want...
...anti-Yanqui hysteria, Panama's National Assembly unanimously rejected the U.S.-proposed treaty for 14 defense bases on Panamanian territory. Last week, to Panama's astonishment, the U.S. promptly ordered its armed forces to vacate all bases outside the U.S.-controlled Canal Zone, including the big bomber base at Rio Hata...