Word: heinkel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...whole situation is saved by the happy advent of a Heinkel bomber, which blows up the house, kills the old man, lays Lark's ghost, and throws the two current lovers violently together. This leaves everybody happy but the customers...
...Germans had reached so far was not officially explained. Most-discussed method: Heinkel pickaback planes had carried the bombs close to England before releasing them. Also possible: bomb-launching submarines, operating off the coasts, or a longer-ranged V-bomb. To the people of northern England, the method did not matter much. The reality was that they were being bombed again. Hastily they remobilized their defenses; in one district the old crew reported for duty ten minutes after the first alarm...
Over France a Mosquito pilot spotted two twin-engined Heinkel bombers flying close formation, and dived on them for the kill. But as he swept into gun range and opened fire, he gasped and blinked. The two bombers were one, joined together along the inner wing structures, with a fifth engine installed at the joint...
Under Water. As many as ten submarines bunched against the convoy never broke through escorting Canadian corvettes, British frigates and sloops. Focke-Wulf 200s and four-engined Heinkel 1775 flew out from French bases to launch radio-controlled glider bombs (British sailors call them "Chase-Me-Charlies"). Flak from the ships, Allied Fortresses, Liberators, Hudsons, Catalinas, Venturas, Sunderlands, fought off the attackers. One British pilot said that the glider bombs looked like small monoplanes and performed "most unusual acrobatics." But they were ineffective: at the battle's end, only two Allied ships had been damaged, none had been sunk...
...built its foundations? Says "Hauptmann Hermann," once Hugo Junkers' employe and friend, now a refugee who writes under a pseudonym: Junkers and the technical genius of Ernst Heinkel. A year after the Armistice, a small group of aviation enthusiasts was meeting for glider contests in the little mountain village of Gersfeld. The army became interested. In an atmosphere akin to that of an old-fashioned detective story, planes and aircraft factories were secretly built under the eyes of the Inter-Allied Control Commission. Planes were hidden in nearby meadows when inspectors came through the factories. When the Allied Commission...