Word: nose
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luftwaffe Shocked. The secret of the Fortress' power in air combat is its batteries of ten to thirteen .50-caliber Browning machine guns in nose, tail, top and belly turrets...
...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 was one time when there must be abundant, clear-cut evidence...
...third Zero came right up under the belly of my plane, sowing bullets up & down the fuselage. I dropped the nose of my plane and came at him headon. One of his bullets hit my windshield right in front of my nose, but it missed me. My own bullets were tearing him apart. We tore past each other less than 15 feet apart. When I looked over my shoulder, he had lost control and was spinning down...
Like Pinocchio's nose, the Crimson injury grows longer and longer. Yesterday three key men were added to the roster of those "who may or may not play Saturday," when it was revealed that bruises of various natures have sidelined Pete Garland, Tom Cowen, and Len Cummings...
...which is led by Major Augustus Thorndike, Jr., former Surgeon of the Department of Hygiene and the H.A.A. includes members of well-known Boston families, many of them graduates of the College and the Medical School and embraces surgeons specializing in general operations, septic surgery, orthopedic surgery, ear, eye, nose and throat, neurosis, urology, X-ray, and on the medical side, in communicable diseases, cardiac troubles, gastritis, intestinal tropical medicine, and neuro-psychiatric treatment...