Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...superbombers of tomorrow will fly from 50 to 100 tons of explosive. . . . A thousand such craft will accomplish as much destruction in a single action as Germany has been able to score in six months of continuous bombing ... at least 200 Coventries could be destroyed...
...record. Cooking on the Congressional stove is a bill giving the Navy $26,500,000,000 (72 Panama Canals) in appropriations and authorizations. This sum will not only cover the cost of repairing and replacing the ships battered and sunk at Pearl Harbor, but add 1,799 assorted craft and some 25,000 planes to the Fleet. It will also serve to make progress payments on about 1,000,000 tons of ships already building...
Somehow the battered Philippine Air Force managed to get some pursuit planes into the air during the week. Airmen climbed joyfully into P-40s-probably rebuilt from junked craft-and went hunting. To Douglas Mac Arthur this small air support meant more than striking power. It meant that for the first time on Bataan he could see through his pilots' eyes what...
...check their ability to switch from light to heavy aircraft), then take off for London. Where they will go after that is anybody's guess. Only 50 British women are now serving as ferry pilots-shuttling planes about England, but not on long hops. Formerly restricted to training craft, they now fly every type of combat plane, except four-motored bombers (Flying Fortresses...
...Time. To many an American who recalls the formidable adventures of German U-boat skippers like Von Nostitz, Janckendorf and Koenig, reports of abandoned survivors and gun-strafed life rafts were far cries from the heroic U-boat actions of the last war. Then the sleek, expertly manned underwater craft slipped boldly into shore waters, in less than six months of 1918 they sowed mines, sank six steamships and 31 other vessels. Then their commanding officers were fighting gentlemen who usually took excellent care of their prisoners and actually had fun matching wits with frantic U.S. harbor-defense units...