Word: gliderfuls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 250 miles southwest of Portugal, enemy aircraft spotted an important Allied convoy, bound for Britain. Next morning the enemy attacked with submarines, followed up with heavy bombers, rocket-glider bombs. Through four days and three nights the Germans displayed their newest air-and-sea tactics...
...flying bomb approaches its target on the wings of a rocket-assisted glider. It may be launched from a plane beyond the range of an enemy warship or bomber formation, may be controlled by radio...
Brain Front. Churchill also revealed what Allied airmen have known for some time: that the Germans have brought against U.S. and British bomber formations a new type of weapon - "a sort of rocket-assisted glider which releases its bombs from a height and is directed toward its target by a parent aircraft." He did not add, but London heard, that other "surprises" had been detected in Western Europe's defenses. Clearly, the Prime Minister in his hour of triumph was not forgetting that all the blood and tears have not yet been shed...
Died. Richard Chichester du Pont, 32, gliding champion of the '30s, special assistant on gliders to the Chief of the U.S. Air Forces; in a glider crash; near March Field, Calif. Son of A. Felix du Pont of the Delaware chemicals clan, he set several soaring records between 1933 and '39, was National Soaring champion for three years...
...display represents all phases of the Army Air Forces Training Command work, and show the training of women as ferry pilots and students of glider techniques...