Word: messerschmitt
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...That was a bomb. The sky is absolutely patterned with bursts of antiaircraft fire and the sea is covered with smoke. Parachuters? No, I think they're sea gulls. Oh, we've just hit a Messerschmitt! Oh, that was beautiful! He's coming right down. You hear those crowds...
Nazis. Employing all the tricks of propaganda and intrigue, Germany has set up a machine that functions like a well-oiled Messerschmitt plane. The Nazi Führer is Arthur Dietrich, brother of Dr. Goebbels' right-hand man and press chief. Officially listed as Press Attaché to the German Legation, he employs a large staff of writers, translators and agents, operates his own printing plant, subsidizes Mexican papers, sponsors magazines such as the blatantly pro-Nazi Timón, and finances local Nazi organizations such as the Vanguardia Nacional. A number of smooth young Nazis arrived from...
Against this rule the Allies made no headway so long as World War II was merely a threat. The French bought obsolescent Curtiss P-36s, surprised most U. S. airmen after war came by showing that they could put on a first-class show against the more advanced Messerschmitt log. The British bought Lockheed Hudsons, North American trainers, long past the secret stage. The one-year rule was first broken last September when the French were allowed to buy a new Douglas attack-bomber. Everybody knew the reason: the Air Corps was already interested in a new and better Douglas...
...development of high-performance pursuit types, Sir Kingsley could, and did, justifiably take pride - a pride which he showed last week in the somewhat extravagant statement that he would pit a hun dred Spitfires or Hurricanes against a much larger number of German counterparts, which would mean Messerschmitt Me. 109s, or Heinkel He. 1125. For Hurricanes and Spitfires have been vastly improved in performance (principally by replacement of antiquated wooden propellers by American-type, constant-speed metal props). And the Spitfire, traditionally nimble in dogfight, has been stepped up to close to 400 miles an hour in top speed...
...neither Hurricane nor Spitfire can be used as fighter escorts on long-range reconnaissance or bombing missions, and neither Britain nor France has brought out an escort fighter like the U. S.'s new twin-engine, high-speed, long-range Lockheed P-38. Germany has: the cannon-carrying Messerschmitt Me. 110, a twin-engine speedster that will be used to keep the Spitfires and Hurricanes, the French Moranes and American Curtisses off the backs of busy bombers. Last week in the House of Commons, when Laborite Hugh Dalton observed that Britain had no counterpart of the Me. no, there...