Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell wanted to see what, if anything, had gone wrong with his thesis that well fed and armed Chinese can fight as valiantly and skillfully as any other troops. He left his headquarters, flew to a forward base, then by jeep and afoot went back into the familiar Burma jungles. He doffed his three stars at a forward command post, donned dirty puttees and stained khaki, wormed up to forward observation posts to watch his U.S.-trained-and-equipped Chinese troops...
...Italians had a workable jet aircraft three years ago, flew it over Milan by daylight and completed one cross-country flight from Milan to Rome; the Germans were reported working on a similar plane. Nothing more has been heard of either...
...fighter aircraft which flies without a propeller. It is driven entirely by jet propulsion. Work on the design was started in 1933 by ace British designer Frank Whittle, now an R.A.F. group captain. It took him four years to lick the engine problem, four more before a plane actually flew...
...flags flew by the score...
...worldwide combat areas. Since Pearl Harbor the A.A.F. has flown out over 125,000 casualties. A soldier broke his back in Kunming, China. In 82 hours he was resting in Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D.C. The Army hospital in Nome burned down. Six days later A.A.F. flew in a complete 25-bed hospital from a base 3,400 miles away...