Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...principle of numbers also applies to bombers, especially in Europe, where their ability to defend themselves and knock down fighters increases out of all proportion as the numoers are increased. So it is that in the U.S.'s huge aircraft production (nearly 8,000 in September) airmen see something more than aircraft of superior quality. They also see numbers as decisive, an outlook that may bind the U.S. to more extensive postwar production of aircraft and a larger peacetime air force than most U.S. citizens now expect...
...definitely discouraged any hope that bombing alone may knock out Germany this year; indeed, he thought that the Allies would be lucky if they achieved a decisive air blow by next year...
...Fifth like the sign over his busy office door at Oujda: "Enter, don't knock...
...nights ahead, and it was only a matter of time until a two-way offensive could be mounted from Britain and Italy. But, in the light of recent experience, airmen were no longer willing to measure the success or failure of their campaign by their ability or inability to knock out Germany this year. Their maximum hope, but not their certainty, was that President Roosevelt meant what he said in his Congressional message...
...West Coast Plan. Last week Home Front Czar Jimmy Byrnes clamped the Buffalo plan - with modifications -onto five West Coast areas: Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and Portland. There the manpower shortage has forced a slow scaling down of U.S. plane production goals, and threatens to knock them on the head in 1944 - despite occasional optimistic WPB estimates...