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...Half credit was for a Dornier bomber on which Eagle pilots and British had collaborated...
Murrow grew 20 Ib. leaner before the last Dornier droned home from the great raids on London. His offices were hit twice. He broadcast in a studio littered with sleeping people on mattresses ("Tis new experience," he cabled, "although probably not so new people sleeping by loudspeakers...
...Justice Department denied the request of tall, sporty, 25-year-old Claudius Dornier Jr., son and namesake of the famed German plane designer, for a further extension of the visitor's permit on which he came to the U. S. 18 months ago. Before the war he got a job as a mechanic in a General Motors plant in Detroit, later lived quietly in Manhattan, but having failed to enroll in a U. S. university as he said he would, he got no more extensions from the Department of Justice, flew off to Venezuela...
...elementary-school curriculum. They taught young Germany to fly gliders. By 1935, when Hitler was ready to build up his Luftwaffe openly, they had man power in training, factories planned, designs developed. These they standardized and limited to a few models for mass production by four main companies-Junkers, Dornier, Heinkel, Bayrische Flugzeugwerke (Messerschmitt). Standardization and mass production are Erhard Milch's passions, right down to his fliers' toothbrushes. The Junkers 87 dive bomber is his special pet. Udet got the idea for it from the U. S. Navy...
...modern, scientific, accurate. Typical level-flight bomber in the medium range (24,900 Ib. fully loaded) is the sleek, two-engined Heinkel He. in K which carries a crew of four, makes bombing a highly coordinated job for two men, the pilot and the bombardier. These, with other types (Dornier, Junkers, etc.), were the ships that were trying to soften up Britain with intensified raids all last week (see above). A Heinkel He. in K is pictured on the opposite page during a hypothetical attack on the vital Thames Estuary and London docks...