Word: fortressed
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...were toiling on rubber long before the Baruch report made U.S. motorists realize the rubber crisis. The experts compressed ten years of normal development into two, created gigantic, intricate plants with almost nothing to go on except small-scale laboratory experiments. This was almost like building a Flying Fortress out of the experience of flying a kite...
...capture of Djebel Tahent, Hill 609, which rises like a flat-topped fortress above the lower hills near by, that cracked the German positions south of Bizerte and started the withdrawal that became a collapse. The 34th Division took 609 in a bloody battle and held it against savage counterattacks...
...make recognition easier, the Eighth Air Force announced that it was painting white rims on engine cowlings of the P-47, a step the Germans may well nullify by painting their own fighters the same way. But Flying Fortress and Liberator gunners will probably not be overly worried by such dodges. Where there is doubt, a gunner shoots at anything within range. It is up to friendly fighter pilots to govern themselves accordingly...
...were breaking ... the situation was critical, hopeless . . . then came the Stukas bringing ammunition, but the enemy is far superior, many times superior. In the end it is no longer possible to prevent them from capturing all our positions in the southern part of the town. . . . They are shelling the fortress which is still in Italian hands...
From the "Eight Ball II" on an Antwerp sweep, Army Air Forces Captain Clark Gable got his first Fortress-eye look at Europe, manned no guns but "learned a lot." He also nearly froze his hands, having nullified the protection of electrically heated gloves by wearing a leather pair underneath. Captain Gable is the gunnery officer of a new Fortress group expected to start operational flights soon...