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Word: sideslips (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...over the target right on time and spent 20 minutes before dropping all our eggs. Several times we got caught in the lights, but I managed to sideslip out of them each time. . . . The Flak was relatively light. I guess the Jerries must have been holding it for the poor fellows caught in the lights. We saw one Halifax caught in a cone of about 50 lights with the Jerries pumping streams into the apex until it exploded and slowly spiraled down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF EUROPE: A Night to be Above | 9/21/1942 | See Source »

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