Word: craft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese depend much on stealth, craft, deception. Sometimes they attack in mass, screaming. At other times they infiltrate singly, silent as little panthers. Snipers, who hide as well as they did in the Philippines, wear pole-climbers' jacks. The Japs advance with a white flag then toss grenades. Some wear machine guns strapped to their backs and crouch down while comrades fire the weapons. They often use English. They catch names and will shout: "Mr. Manning, withdraw!" A Marine far out in front and reporting by "walkie-talkie" wireless was asked how things stood. The Japs were horning...
Last summer the Club was preparing to fly with the C.A.P., when a government order prohibiting ordinary civilian flying within 40 miles of the coast forced them to send their planes inland. Had the Club owned their own flying craft, they would probably have been able to register it with the civilian patrol organization. However, the aircraft company from which they rented their ships was obliged to call all their planes out of the vital areas...
...motored bombers have proved superior in their categories in all theaters. Actual employment of the Boeing B-17 (Flying Fortress) over Europe has exceeded even the fondest expectations of its American proponents. It is a tribute to the determination of the Army Air Forces in developing this type of craft that the same kind of record has been made by the Consolidated B-24 in Egypt and in other areas...
North American P-51 (Mustang)-single-engine, liquid-cooled. Newest of the Allison-powered U. S. pursuits, it has roughly the same limitations on altitude performance as other single-engine Allison craft. Improvement in the power plant and other technical changes promise a sensational improvement in altitude performance...
Douglas SBD (Dauntless). The Navy's carrier-based standard dive-bomber (singleengine, air-cooled), this craft is the best in the world in its category. It will shortly be supplemented by a newer design, now in production...