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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...
...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...