Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soon. It looked last week as though the Chinese had argued one side of their case better than the other. General Wavell's cautiously worded communiqué made the British advance appear to be either an attempt to divert Japan from attacking southern China or a bid for hop-off positions for a future offensive, rather than a broadly conceived campaign to reconquer Burma...
...shuttled between peaceful Yankee airports have since flown almost 750,000 miles over the stormy Atlantic, wings down with military and diplomatic passengers, tons of vital war cargo. Furthermore, thousands of England-bound bombers and fighters have checked through Northeast's airports before making the long over-water hop. And Northeast's efficient pilot school at Burlington, Vt. is already turning out scores of polished pilots monthly, will soon be expanded anew...
...space a month was coupled with the admission that this "practically cuts the island off from shipping commerce." (In normal times, .shipping averaged four times as much.) Most help came from the Agricultural Marketing Administration, which was establishing food stockpiles on various Caribbean islands and helping to further a hop-skip-and-jump transportation route which makes use of schooners between the islands. But even some of the schooners, which can make the runs between the islands in daylight, had been machine-gunned by subs. And AMA had made fantastic and grievous mistakes: it sent 3,000 bags of sugar...
...went into North Africa with Jimmy Doolittle. His own 12th Air Force, spawned and trained by Major General Carl ("Tooey") Spaatz's 8th in Britain, toted a battalion of U.S. parachutists 1,500 miles from Britain to Oran (previous paratroops record: the Luftwaffe's 325-mile hop from Namsos to Narvik). U.S. fighter pilots in British Spitfires took off from British carriers, strafed Vichy columns and airdromes, met a few French Dewoitine fighters in Algeria. British Fleet Air Arm pilots in Albacore torpedo-bombers also fought in Algeria...
...later the Western Defense Command announced that the trailing plane that clipped the tail assembly was an army bomber. About all other details it was mum. Airline officials and pilots had cause to say: "I told you so." Long & loud have been their complaints about Ferry Command pilots who hop on & off the airlines' beam without reporting positions to traffic controls. One pilot reported last week he had to pull up the nose so fast to avoid hitting an army plane that he almost threw his passengers through the floor. The Army and CAA immediately launched an investigation: this...