Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a Navy Department bulletin caused a reporter to write from Washington: "United States fighter planes have scored a smashing victory over the Japanese at Guadalcanal, shooting down 37 of an attacking force of 98 planes, with a loss of seven American craft, the Navy announced today in a communiqué that told of the greatest aerial battle in the Solomons since last winter...
...Hilaire Hitler, he got so mad he sued the publisher and writers for $100,000. Today he seems in fine inner and outer repair. So does Papa, of whom says Hilaire: "He is to painting what Saroyan is to writing: neither knows a thing about his craft; each does a damn good...
...After the battle of Midway, the Army Air Forces managed to give the public the impression that land-based aircraft had played the biggest role in routing the Jap task forces. Actually it was Navy carrier-based craft that did the most damage to the enemy...
...series of conferences between U.S., British and Canadian officers had been taking place, and would continue, in Washington and London. The result would be a pooling of information and tactics which, the communique confidently asserted, would achieve "the best methods of employing the Allied escort vessels, anti-submarine craft and aircraft in defeating the U-boat menace...
...February's short working month the U.S. produced 5,500 military aircraft. The proportion of combat craft among them had grown to 65% from the 50% of last summer. The proportion of four-motored bombers in the total had undoubtedly grown...