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Word: fliers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hess took off from the Messerschmitt plant at Augsburg in a new type of reconnaissance plane on a Saturday evening. He wore a gold wrist watch, a gold wrist compass. In the pockets of his superbly tailored flier's uniform he had a photograph of his four-year-old son, two phials of medicine, one for his weak heart, the other for a gall-bladder ailment. He also had a selection of photographs of himself at different ages; a map on which was charted a course from Augsburg to a blue-penciled circle which outlined the grounds of Dungavel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The World and Hess | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...first account from London said that the Duke had met Hess at the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, that Hess had planned to approach him because before the war he was a member of the Anglo-German Fellowship. The Duke's younger brother, also a flier, had worked in Nazi labor camps, married the strong-through-joy Hon. Prunella Stack, physical culturist and Nazi favorite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The World and Hess | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

...Giinther Tonn, officials of the Nazi Transocean News Service (TIME, March 24), arrested on deportation charges because they entered the U.S. as "treaty merchants" and did not maintain that status, were held at Ellis Island. The Government argument against bail reviewed the case of Baron Franz von Werra, Nazi flier, who put up $15.000 bail and ran away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALIENS: Robert Jackson's Busy Week | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

...first question was fairly easy. According to report, the talkative German war flier was in Berlin bragging of a seven-month, 16,000-mile flight from his British captors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Escape Artist | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...confused with Charles G. Grey, U.S. World War I flier (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Grey's Crack | 4/14/1941 | See Source »

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