Word: dogfighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dear Father: We had a grand day on Friday with three patrols. On the first we had a glorious dogfight with about nine Messerschmitt nos which caught a proper pasting. I must admit that they were heavily outnumbered. On the second trip we had an uneventful brush with some Messerschmitt 1095. It was the last trip which was the most fun. About twelve Junkers type 88 bombers came in and, after losing two from anti-aircraft fire, were set on by some Hurricanes. As we climbed up to them we had the pleasure of seeing one dart past us, hotly...
When a Messerschmitt plane fell out of a dogfight, missed his country home by inches, "most-bombed" U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joseph Patrick Kennedy, father of nine children, declared: "Bombing ... as far as it interrupts the night's rest ... is nothing new to married men who, like myself, have many children...
...termine whether he talks as they write or they write as he talks. They are careful to stress simple Americana, with accent on adventure and tear-jerking anecdotes. Says small, plump, volatile Buranelli: "I'd leave out the most important piece of foreign news for a dogfight in Denver." Neither Buranelli, who used to be a puzzle editor and feature writer on the Sunday World, nor Sherwin, onetime dramatic critic for the New York Globe, is as cheery in out look as Thomas sounds. Buranelli is convinced that the modern world is almost hopeless, would like to return...
...Majesty's forces from overseas. Before the week was out Britons were certain that Adolf Hitler had decided to crash the party. Huge German air assaults lasting from dawn to dusk began; 400 or 500 Nazi raiders came over Britain every day; no hour was without its dogfight. Finally, after holding it back for several hours, the British censor released a dispatch reporting that heavy explosions, believed to be caused by shells, not bombs, had occurred on the southeast coast-presumably the work of Nazi guns across the Channel...
...waves over the English Channel, preparing for Adolf Hitler's invasion of Britain, the cliffs of Dover are the world's best press box for newsmen and photographers. There, one day last week, a cameraman from Planet News Ltd., top-flight British picture agency, snapped the biggest dogfight of the war to date in a darkening...