Word: grounds
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hours Ground Work...
...junior staff officers to withdraw to a line running north-south behind the Canal du Nord between the Somme and the Scarpe River. By this move he saved his troops from a second Somme and shortened his line. More important, he gained the opportunity to prepare on virgin ground and far away from hostilities for defensive tactics which his bright young men, notably Colonel Fritz von Lossberg, had evolved for divisions after observing the French use for smaller units...
...During heavy fighting north of Sarreguemines, German fighting planes flew out in force for the first reported time, to strafe advancing ground troops. Allied pursuits whipped out to meet them, claimed the upper-hand at dogfighting...
...quality for the course, which begins on Monday, October 2, and which will include 72 hours of ground training and 25 to 50 hours in the air, undergraduate and graduate students must meet the following requirements...
Subjects covered in the ground course will include history of aviation; civil air regulations; navigation; meteorology; parachute training; aircraft and theory of flight; engines; instruments; and radio uses and forms. The ground course will be completed in the first half year...