Word: gripen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winging its way across the dark Skagerrak, the big Swedish airliner Gripen was nearing home shores on its run from Aberdeen to Stockholm...
...rudder pedals, fought to lose altitude and get down near the water without pulling the wings off. The Nazi pilot took his time, turned smoothly to follow the clumsy transport's evasive action, made another pass, and another. For ten nightmarish minutes the unequal struggle went on. The Gripen almost made land, crashed instead on rocks just off the coast...
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