Word: coveys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...What Price Glory, The Big Parade). It is also a loud advertisement for the U. S. Navy. One of the shortcomings of Hell Divers is the fact that spectacle and plot are not well integrated. Parts which are pure spectacle are noisy, informative and magnificently photographed. Best shots: a covey of bombing planes wheeling one by one to dive at a target (shown three times); a plane landing on the deck of the U. S. S. Saratoga as seen by a camera attached to the underpart of the plane; target practice in which airplane gunners fire at three blimps with...
...meet opened on the west side of Cleveland's Municipal Airport, divided in two for the occasion. There were tunes by a prodigious band, elaborate parades of civic and social organizations. Presently the first covey of stunt flyers, a team of Europeans assembled by onetime U. S. Navy flyer Lieut. Alford J. Williams, took the air. Going past the stands, Wasp Udet shot out of formation as the other planes landed, climbed almost perpendicularly, turned on his side, dropped till his left wing seemed to brush the ground, climbed again, rounded the field upside down at a height...
...Corinto in four days, raced at full speed with blankets, tents, medical supplies. The aircraft carrier Lexington raced out of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, at 28 knots, outdistanced her destroyer convoy. Next day, 150 miles off the coast of Central America, she swung into the wind and a covey of fire planes roared off her flying deck. In a little more than four hours they landed in Managua with physicians, surgeons, loads of urgently needed anaesthetics. (By the previous midnight, four Navy surgeons had performed more than 500 operations, mostly without anaesthetics...