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...made more than 200 flights, between times was crated and carted back to Northrop's research plant at Hawthorne, Calif, for changes. By the time the Air Forces had taken charge, Northrop Aircraft Inc.'s plant (now turning out Vultee dive-bombers under license for the British and the Army) was whistling with rumors that the little yellow creature on Muroc Dry Lake was forerunner of a line of bigger, more powerful flying wings for the armed forces...
Born with a flair for showmanship as conspicuous as his red hair, he chases a football like a beagle after a rabbit, always seems to dive to the bottom of the pile to get it. He believes a referee's job calls for neither a blind man nor a hawkshaw, prefers to keep the show going rather than call every infraction of football's 65 pages of rules...
Partly, of course, by strategy-by drawing Russian strength aside, especially into the Ukraine. Partly by better dive-bombing. Partly by a highly developed anti-tank artillery technique. But mostly because of the difference between the German and Russian conceptions of the purpose of tanks...
...violent was the Yugoslav revolt that the Nazis were reported sending a whole panzer division of 12,000 men toward Belgrade. To dislodge Yugoslavs from four towns the Nazis had to resort to shelling with 155-mm. guns and dive-bombing. The fight went on, although the Nazis and Stooge Pavelitch's brown-shirted Ustashi lined Yugoslavs up by the dozens and riddled them. In the Banat region 42 bodies swung in a market place for a day and a night. Hangmen noosed the young neck of Gaysin Grodza, a girl of 21 who had bombed a German store...
Down out of the west streaked a flight of 18 Bell Airacobras, at 50 feet off the ground let go a diving blast of gunfire. A column of 18 Navy dive-bombers, dropping from 8,000 feet, pulled up at 1,500, after letting go their 500-pounders. The giant bursts all seemed to hit the same spot...