Word: glides
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...feet, under a 5,000-foot ceiling, the roar of the 314's four big engines suddenly died away to a mutter. The Clipper went into a glide. Almost on the water, Rod Sullivan unaccountably wheeled into a turn, brushed a wing on the water. This was his first bad crash in 101 transatlantic flights...
Engaged. Mayris Chancy, 31, Eleanor Roosevelt's onetime dancer-protegee; and Hershey Surkin, 31, orchestra leader; in San Francisco. She did the Bovingdon glide...
...three months and one week," concludes Author Wolfert, "[Torpedo 8] carried out 39 attack missions. . . . They were credited with two carriers. They also hit a battleship, five heavy cruisers, four light cruisers, one destroyer, and one transport. . . . When there were no Jap ships to torpedo, they glide-bombed Japs on the ground." After one such bombing, the Marines found 407 enemy dead. The Author. Ever since his hasty birth in a bathtub (Manhattan, 1908), talented Author Wolfert has been in a hurry. In the last 19 months he breathlessly...
...fighter-bombers, sprang a particularly nasty surprise on the enemy during the pre-invasion cleanup. An adaptation of the North American Mustang (P-51) the A36 is a 400-mile-an-hour single seater, equipped with dive brakes and wing bomb racks. It functions as a dive or glide bomber or as a low level strafing ship, specializing in such small but worthwhile targets as truck convoys, trains and power stations...
Marine pilots fly Navy planes: the chunky, tough, not-too-fast SBD for dive-bombing and scouting missions; the plucky little Grumman F4F for fighting (a winner every time if it can get enough initial altitude); the versatile, though somewhat delicate, TBF for torpedo missions and glide-bombing. Supporting the Marine squadrons have been Naval squadrons and Army pilots...