Word: bombs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naval aircraft in bombing maneuvers used to fly at a safe altitude directly over their target, "lay their eggs," hope for a hit. Rarely were they rewarded. Newer strategy is to dive upon the enemy battleship, release the bombs, pull up sharply?the bomb continuing the path of the dive. Under this terrific strain, wings of an ordinary airplane would crumple like paper...
...took the air to learn the countryside, to spot enemy encampments. Next day larger squadrons rose out of Mather Field to smash Southern Pacific R. R. yards, to destroy bridges and warehouses and ammunition dumps, to hop over fields and fences, highways and houses, to harass the invaders with bomb and bullet...
Last week, as the axe was being taken in an armored car to the annual ceremony, three young men posing as newshawks tossed a tear gas bomb into the procession, rushed the axe guards, made off with all but a small fragment of the precious implement during the mêlée. All of California's roadsters and all of her men scoured the roads leading out of Berkeley. But the sly Stanfordmen eluded them, got the axe home, hid it away. Next year Stanford's axe, unless a counter-raid is successful, will once more...
...should call Walery Slawek a romantic figure," wired a native Polish correspondent, replying to a query from his U. S. editor. "He took part with Marshal Pilsudski in various anti-Russian enterprises before the War, during one of which his face was disfigured by the premature explosion of a bomb...
...difficulty, performs better than its biplane cousin. Equipped with a Pratt & Whitney Wasp motor, supercharged to develop 475 h. p., it cruises at 165 m. p. h., has a high speed well in excess of 200 m. p. h. It carries two machine guns shooting through the propeller, a bomb-rack for a few small "eggs...