Word: skips
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...realize how much the fellows and girls at the plant want that raise. I want it too because after all I have a little money coming to me out of that too, but I am willing to skip that money if it means you have to go on strike...
...have accomplished what we have in the Pacific with our left hand and our back turned-in the Solomons chiefly with naval and air weapons. Once we can turn our face to the Pacific, the hop-skip to Vella Lavella will look like a pip-squeak. Then strategists can begin to contemplate the kind of spectacular bypassing that will be necessary if we ever expect to reach Tokyo, the kind of massive land invasions necessary to knock the Jap out of his main bases and hold them. Until they can turn around, the Allies will have to be satisfied with...
...Flip Skip...
...Forces headquarters for combat expertness is a postgraduate school. Its name: the Army Air Forces School of Applied Tactics, at Orlando. There air men learn such new developments as Chennault's winning mass-fighter tactics; the deadly skip-bombing developed by the late Major William G. Benn of MacArthur's Air Force; the countless tricks of navigation, gunnery and high-altitude bombing developed the hard way by Ira Eaker's Flying Fortressmen and Liberator crews over France and Germany...
...formation with the speeding craft as they shot toward the target. The first bomb hit the ground short of the target, bounced, ripped through. The next three went smack through it. The planes that followed had nothing left but the circle. No bomb missed it. Major Benn's skip-bombing lesson had come home...