Word: fortressed
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...will weary; their hope is that the democracies will faint later on the long road; that now, in the fifth year of the war, there will be doubts, despondencies and slackness. They then hope that out of this they will be able to consolidate their forces in their central fortress of Europe, their remote home islands in Japan, and extract from our weariness and from any divisions which might appear among us the means of making terms to enable them to repair their losses, regather their forces and open upon the world, perhaps within another decade, a war even more...
...when the weather is too low for precision bombing the American Fortresses can ride "in the soup" to their targets, unload bigger bombloads because they have achieved a quality which airmen call "interchangeability"-i.e., they can take light loads to high altitudes over long ranges, or they can cut down their fuel load and have bomb-rack room to load up with explosives. At Emden the Fortress load averaged around four tons each. Extra bomb racks had done the trick, without sacrifice of the Forts' defensive power...
...Flying Fortress (Boeing B-17). One of the truly great aircraft of World War II, newly refitted for interchangeability, the B-iy is fast, has superior altitude performance and a defensive gunpower unequaled in any foreign plane. Its accomplishments against German pursuit are legend. They are even more spectacular against the more brittle Jap air force. Example: in one series of 228 sorties in the Pacific, Fortresses met 754 Jap aircraft, destroyed 76, lost only...
...bombing, but between Sept. 8 and Sept. 19 no heavy bombers went into Germany. Airmen attached no particular significance to this circumstance; they have had such lulls before, will have them again. But they were bound to reflect that their principal operations from Britain last week were "supporting operations"-Fortress attacks on the Germans' Atlantic port of Nantes, on the submarine base at La Pallice, on factories near Paris which supply engines to the Luftwaffe on all fronts; R.A.F. night attacks on the great Dunlop tire factory at Montlugon, and on the Germans' only two direct rail routes...
...only ready to meet the enemy, but waiting to go out and find him. . . . We have covered the face of India with airfields." Brigadier General Caleb V. ("Old Grizzly") Haynes, reviewing the job he has done in directing U.S. air attacks from India, declared that Burma was no fortress, that Japanese facilities in the country had been "pulverized...