Word: hiccoughed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half years. Up to last week most serious damage any of the big fellows had had was a buckled landing gear. Last week the spell was broken. Flying toward the mist-shrouded San Jacinto Mountains, 20 miles southeast of Riverside, Calif., a B-17 was heard to hiccough, splutter. Then there was an explosive crash. To death against a mountainside had ridden an Army B-17 crew, three officers, three enlisted men. Meantime the military flying services, speeding up training and tactical work, marked down their 59th fatal crash in 1940. Dead...