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...Army airmen also jumped into the Malaya fight, burned grounded planes and a hangar on a Jap airdrome 300 miles northwest of Singapore...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE PACIFIC: Het is Zoover | 1/26/1942 | See Source »

...hangar which is known to be 30 feet high casts a 20-foot shadow, what is the height of a signal tower which casts a 70-foot shadow at the same time...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Requirements For Enlistment In U.S. Training Programs Relaxed | 1/19/1942 | See Source »

...which time the sea was brilliantly sunlit, nine Japanese planes were sighted at 10,000 feet. They flew in single file along the length of the 32,000-ton battle cruiser Repulse. A bomb hit the catapult deck and exploded in the hangar, setting a fire below decks. The Repulse's planes, instead of being out on reconnaissance, were in hangar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Wales, Repulse: A Lesson | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...began to list alarmingly to starboard-"at an angle suggesting a motor car with both wheels on one side off." On the flight and hangar decks mechanics and pilots worked frantically in an effort to launch the ship's planes, 60 Swordfish torpedo-carriers and Skua dive-bombers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: Where Is the Ark Royal? | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

...hulls of two sister boats abuilding in United Aircraft's Vought-Sikorsky plant. Besides these, Am Ex has CAB approval of its proposed New York-to-Lisbon run; the State Department has guaranteed landing rights in Lisbon; it has leased for 40 years (and $1,400,000) hangar space at La-Guardia Airport; it has trained personnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Transatlantic Daredevil | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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