Word: hops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enemy over the hill and around the corner, artillery has to put an observer where he can correct fire. This was easy from a balloon. But in 1942 high-powered planes have made balloons dangerously obsolete. Using commercial flivvers, artillery pilots hop up & down behind their own lines-just long enough to see where the shots are falling, and to radio corrections. Two graduate pilots and a full-time mechanic go to every field-artillery battalion...
...operational procedures, shaking the last kinks out of the line that must supplant the last Burma road and then step up deliveries beyond any maximum that the trucks could have reached. But that time is not yet. Unless a great many more planes are put on the ferry hop China will continue to be virtually cut off from all U.S. supplies and help...
...unit commander when he took over a squadron of unruly Australians, adjusted himself to their helter-skelter ways as no Briton had ever been able to do. Few R.A.F. men doubted that, as lead man in a wing (two or more squadrons), Paddy Finucane could still make his elders hop to his command...
...canned milk and water together. Finally they saw a vessel, a U.S. ship which was part of a convoy. The boy with the empty pipe said he jerked a thumb at the boat's crew, asked ''Ride, buddy?" The crew, he said, grinned, and said, "Sure. Hop...
...alone. And more planes were needed to tote the load. Thus airline engineers and mechanics will soon start converting some 75 silver-sided transports into grim, olive-grey cargo planes. After the seats have been ripped out and husky floors and big doors or hatches installed, the ships will hop-skip all over the U.S. with ammunition, spare parts, engines, even big two-and-a-half-ton machine tools. All this will be done by the airlines...