Word: heinkel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heinkel roared out of an overcast Norwegian sky. It was the evening of June 5, 1940. The submarine Clyde of the Royal Navy (1,500 tons displacement, surface speed 22 knots) was on the surface, recharging her batteries. Able to travel thousands of miles without refueling, she was patrolling the North Sea. As the Clyde plunged into the protecting vault of ocean, she was sprayed with bullets and cannon shells, her steel-hided bridge pierced in three places. The Clyde could no longer surface to recharge her batteries in safety: from now on the area would be patrolled...
...Germany's new Heinkel (H-177) is her first four-motored bomber designed as such (the Ju-Sg and Focke-Wulf Kurier were militarized transports). Its most distinctive feature: it has only two propellers, with two liquid-cooled (1,200-h.p.) engines geared to each propeller. The 177 is larger than the Flying Fortress, is almost as fast (about 300 m.p.h.). The Henschel-129, a twin-engined attack plane, is the Germans' answer to the Russian Stormovik. The 129 has a speed of 275 m.p.h., can carry 770 Ib. of bombs, carries a 37-mm. cannon...
...Heinkel 177 is a 35-ton bomber powered by four 1,200-h.p. Hirth air-cooled engines. It is believed to have an eight-ton bomb capacity at normal range (about 500 miles), a top speed of 300 m.p.h.*The presumption is that it would be as effective in bombing Britain as the Lancaster, Britain's best heavy bomber, is in raiding Germany. But the Germans have yet to prove that they can turn out 177s in great quantities...
...very crude. The weakest point is the cooling system; cooling area per cylinder is under 1,000 sq. in. compared to 2,800 in the genuine Wright Cyclone. The propeller is a duplicate of the U.S.-made Hamilton Standard. The air frame is very similar to the German Heinkel HE 113. Most of the other features are standard with many other types of fighter craft now in use. The armament is heavy but not unusually so: two 20-mm. cannon, one in each wing, and two 7.7-mm. (30 cal.) machine guns on either side of the nose...
...Nazi blockade of the Skagerrak. In the midst of a blinding snowstorm on the evening of March 31, the ships slipped out of harbor to a rendezvous with British destroyers. Waiting for them, plainly tipped off by Göteborg spies, were German warships and swarms of Heinkel bombers. More than half the convoy was sent to the bottom; a few ships crawled back to Göteborg; only one or two got through to the North...