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...start of the post-armistice campaign, most Finns had too long been friends of the Germans to pursue the battle with gusto. But heavy-footed Germans did their undiplomatic best to change Finnish minds. Outmoded Stukas brutally dive-bombed two Finnish troop trains. Finnish towns were fired with senseless Teutonic fury. The Finnish soldier began to take a more personal interest...
...Robert Peel, 21, sixth baronet; ordinary seaman, Royal Navy. A descendant of the famed British Prime Minister who founded the London police force, he was drowned when Japanese planes dive-bombed and sank his ship in the Indian Ocean two years ago. His mother, comedienne Beatrice Lillie, learned backstage of her only son's death, went on with her show. She inherited his fortune...
...nose (see cut), keep the bomb on its course. A small windmill in the nose regulates the range. Operating a counter as it turns, the wind mill acts as a timing device: at the set time it jams the controls and throws the bomb into a steep dive at its target. To check on accuracy, wind drift, etc., the Nazis equipped every tenth bomb with a radio signal (see WORLD BATTLEFRONTS...
...strafing passes at our stern and got away with it, but a minute later I watched him dog-fighting a Hellcat-two fly-like dots against the sky going around like Ferris wheels. Our ship opened up again. Black bursts broke high over us and I saw a dive bomber readying...
...crouched in trenches, in curious, strangely intimate warfare, often within the sound of the enemy's voice. In the nearby town of Dornot, American and German dead lay sprawled together in too hot a corner for immediate recovery. Occasionally, when the rain lifted, Thunderbolt fighters whipped in to dive-bomb and strafe strong points...