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Last week a new dive-bomber for Britain appeared: the Vultee Vengeance. Its military load, range, speed were secrets. Unofficial claims indicated that it can carry upwards of a ton of bombs, that it has a range of 1,000 miles or more, a diving speed of better than 300 m.p.h. Its power plant is an air-cooled, radial Wright engine (the 1,700-h.p. Cyclone...
...double-crossed the other, it was agreed that an Italian staff officer should board the Regent as an observer-hostage while the British mate was ashore. For nine hours the Regent lay in Cattaro harbor in what an Admiralty report called "this tense but farcical situation." Then two Italian dive-bombers appeared over the harbor, and at this point British and Italian versions of the incident diverged. The Italians said the Regent got the wind up and left. The British said the bombers machine-gunned the Regent, wounded Commander Bartlett and two others. In any case, the Regent slipped...
During the retreat, the R.A.F. had done its level and dive-bombing best. One pilot, who had flown a total of 120 hours, said: "There are too many of them. We do not have the aircraft and they are destroying our airfields. The troops at the front are running out of ammunition and we can't stop the Hun by dive-bombing roads. . . . Three of our aircraft set off loaded with bombs from which the detonators had been removed in order to drop them for our sappers so they would have demolition explosives. But the planes were shot down...
...story of his escape from Yugoslavia. "Now I know how it feels to wait for a firing squad," he began. His adventures started on his way to Belgrade when a train dumped him out ten miles outside the city. Against a black cloud over the town wheeled the Nazi dive-bombers. Correspondent Brewer, guided by flames, trudged on alone with pack and typewriter toward the city. In the deserted, fire-drenched, shattered streets, stumbling through splintered glass, he was arrested by eight Comitadjis with shotguns and pistols. Unable to read, they concluded his passport was forged, his typewriter a portable...
...evacuees now occupy 31 new national camp schools run by the Government. They live in cedar houses, have plenty of room to play. They learn, besides ABCs, to garden and mend shoes, and they enjoy getting even with unpopular masters by calling them such names as "Old Heinkel" and "Dive-Bombing Smith." Each camp (enrollment: about 250) costs around $150,000 to build and $30,000 a year to run. So popular are they that the Government indicated they might be continued after...