Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather cleared in Britain and in western Europe. By night the moon was full and by day the mists were gone from R.A.F. and U.S. airdromes. Earthbound for many days, four-engined U.S. Fortresses and Liberators soared up from Britain and flew 180 miles into France-to the Nazi air and railway center at Romilly-Sur-Seine, 65 miles southeast of Paris and the farthest into German Europe that U.S. bombers had yet ventured...
...single bomber. Some of the Germans did insolent, casual "slow rolls" as they came in, wheeling their planes wing over wing and then straightening out to fire. Their daring and determination cost them dearly. The bombers (each carrying a tremendous wallop in thirteen .50-caliber machine guns) flew in close formation, which caught the Germans in murderous crossfire. The bomber crews claimed 44 German fighters certainly destroyed (six crashed. 23 fell in flames, 14 disintegrated in the air, one was abandoned by a parachuting German) plus 20 or more probables. But the Americans had their heaviest loss to date...
...young Cripps was an avid horseman and hunter, but his main interests were scientific. At 17 he built and flew a glider. At 18 he received the rare honor of working in the laboratory of the great chemist Sir William Ramsay. At 22 he read a science paper before the Royal Society (title: The Critical Constants and Orthobaric Densities of Xenon). Soon after the outbreak of World War I, young Cripps was recalled from driving a truck in France, rose to be assistant superintendent of "the largest explosives factory in the British Empire...
...into Darling. These results, while not yet enough to label the P-38 another "best in the world," proved the versatility of a plane that was once the dog of the Air Forces. It is almost four years since Army Test Pilot Lieut. Ben Kelsey flew the first P-38 across the continent in a near-record 7¾ hours' flying time, only to crash when one of the plane's engines conked out at Mitchel Field, N.Y. Before pilots learned to bail out by diving the plane and somersaulting forward, some had their legs sliced...
...Aleutians the P-38 has been in combat longest, with the most satisfactory results. Into San Antonio's municipal airport a 26-year-old pilot wearing a D.S.C., Captain George Laven Jr., flew his P-38 straight from three months in the Aleutians. Said he: "With a P-38 I would go into battle anywhere, under any conditions, with complete confidence that the Government has given me the best fighting equipment the world has to offer...