Word: heinkel
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...Thus, there have been instances where relatively inferior German aeroplanes have been able to attack ground troops without interference from the air. But these instances have become rarer. In the main the Ju. 86, the Heinkel He. 51 and Arado 68 biplane fighters, and both versions of the Ju. 87, have been massacred by Allied aeroplanes...
Highest score for the week was made by Australian Pilot Leslie Clisby, with 14 enemy ships, seven in one day. Coldblooded Pilot Clisby, 26, was seen engaging a Heinkel in action, then disappeared. Three hours later he turned up at the orderly room with two German prisoners in tow. After forcing the Heinkel down he had landed his own ship, chased the German crew into a wood, captured them at revolver's point. Pilot Clisby's commanding officer remarked it was a bit uncommon for pilots to bring back prisoners...
...midnight last week three German planes were spotted skimming low off England's southeast coast. Soon antiaircraft guns began to bark up & down the shore. A heavy Heinkel bomber, her belly freighted with mines, was squarely...
...weight and speed took the big (74-ft. wingspan) Heinkel through the top of an apartment house, well into a group of seaside villas beyond. There followed a shattering roar of gas tanks and bombs. Firemen, ambulancemen, air-raid wardens hurried to the flaming wreck. Behind them an eager, half-dressed crowd collected. Windows went...
Nobody knew that an unexploded mine's fuse, jarred by the impact, was at work. Four and a half minutes after the Nazi airmen died, it set off its charge. Next instant there was a crater where the wrecked Heinkel had been. Surrounding houses were smashed flat. A baby carriage hung from a treetop...