Word: messerschmitt
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...Allies worked doggedly to overcome the difficulties of supplying forward bases. Reinforcements arrived. Long-range, multipurpose P-38 Lightnings flew from England with extra fuel tanks strapped to their bellies, fought back Messerschmitt 109s and Focke-Wulf 190s, which thus far had reigned supreme. Tropicalized Spitfires arrived, Marauders, Mitchells, Bostons, Airacobras, Hurri-bombers, Hurricanes carrying tank-busting cannon. In late January the British Eighth Army drew up in the south with its powerful Allied Western Desert air forces...
Axis air strength grew too. Estimates, probably exaggerated, were that one-fifth of Germany's Luftwaffe was concentrated in the area, almost the entire Italian air force. German veterans from France and Russia appeared. P-38 pilots developed a "Messerschmitt twitch," a nervous glance back over the shoulder. Axis anti-aircraft fire intensified, caught many an unlucky medium bomber before the high command realized that these planes were better suited to sweeps against shipping...
...raid, small in comparison with day & night attacks on England in 1940 and 1941, was by way of retaliation for the two poundings the R.A.F. had given Berlin. About 125 fighter-bombers and fighters, mostly Focke-Wulf 1905 and Messerschmitt 190Fs, crossed the coast at Beachy Head and roared at mast level up the Thames Estuary. The R.A.F. shot down 16, of which five fell before the cannon and machine guns of the Hawker Typhoon, one of Britain's newest and fastest (over 400 m.p.h.) fighters. Only six German planes penetrated the outer defenses of the capital...
...well to the south of Paris, had their first sight of the Eiffel Tower. But most of them were too busy for rubbernecking: all the way in from the Channel coast, despite a strong escort of Allied fighters, the bombers were bedeviled by clouds of Focke-Wulf 1905 and Messerschmitt logs, based in great force in western France and manned by skillful pilots...
...MERMAID* AND THE MESSERSCHMITT -Rulka Longer...