Word: pilotless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Forces' record week of bombing Germany, the targets of some bombers were factories producing pilotless bombers and their fuels. How effective it would be in stopping the scourge, no man yet knew. In their sixth week of suffering from the Germans' Vergeltungswaffe 1 (Reprisal Weapon 1), Londoners had no relief...
...that the Germans have used their secret weapon--a winged bomb, pilotless and probably pet-propelled--the British are tackling the problem of countering it with far more confidence than they had when they set about the job of finding an answer to the night-bombing threat of four years ago." N. Y. Times, June...
Swedes got an unscheduled preview of a new German weapon last week. A pilotless, rocket-driven aircraft crashed near Bertilstorp, in south Sweden. Apparently it had strayed out of control of its radio beam. Observers who studied the wreckage said the craft had no wings, tail, or landing gear. It carried two spherical mines which were thrown 100 yards by the crash, but did not explode...
German retaliation raids must be expected to increase, Churchill said. There is also no doubt that the Germans are trying to prepare a large-scale attack against England with rockets, pilotless aircraft or both...
Windfall. In Somers, N.Y., when a pilotless fighter plane crashed near the home of William H. Lasdon, chairman of the local war-bond drive, he and his committee promptly got to work on the gathering crowd, within an hour had $48,000 in pledges...