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Germany's Stuka is an ugly, husky, single-motored monoplane with an upswept and backswept wing. Under its glass solarium are seats for pilot and gunner in tandem. On the wing's leading edge are two fixed machine guns, firing aft is another on a swivel mount, all primarily used for protection from enemy pursuit. The machine-gun sight in front of the pilot is also his bomb sight and, with no more complicated sighting equipment than that, he is able to make dive bombing as accurate as the U. S. Navy and its Curtis, O2C Hell Diver...
Among other things that went whistling down on the German seaplane bases at Sylt one night last week (see p. 30) was a pair of shoes, dropped by a young British gunner with a note to explain: For Adolf, your Führer. . . . He will wear them out getting away from...
...line-of-battle ship built at Rotherhithe in 1798, took part in the British investiture of Alexandria in 1801, but did little sea-fighting. In 1807 she burned with 252 deaths off the Dardanelles, after doing her part at Trafalgar (1805) under Admiral Nelson. Ajax No. 3, a 74-gunner, backed up the Duke of Wellington's siege of San Sebastian in 1813. Ajax No. 5 (Nos. 4 & 6 played no part in history) was a wooden, 60-gun, steam ship of the line. She took part in the bombardment of Bomarsund Fortress in the Aland Islands (then Russian...
...have a fairly good imagination but I still can't figure out how the captain knows about this shot. Does the shell leave a smoke track? Does it look like a comet? Does the captain see the gunner aiming ahead of his path...
...fourth in the Eastern Intercollegiate League standings include Maurice Poitras, Kent and Steve Stavers, all distance men, and Berndt Lindgren, a sprinter. Outstanding Sophomore is Jack Brown, equally well at home in any free-style event, at the back, and the breast stroke. Other promising second-year men are Gunner Ohberg and Aiden Wood, sprinters, and Joe McKinley, a diver...