Word: stuka
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ninth inning opened with Harvard out in front with a safe 7-3 lead, when Stuka for Westover, knocked one out with the bases loaded. Jim Gallagher on third threw a wild one over Bill Fitz's head at first and the blitz was on, with the soldiers gaining three runs on this error to tie the score for the game...
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Thus Nazi Germany last week paid last honors to Ernst Udet, World War I ace, once best of the international aerobats, exponent of parachute troops and glider warfare. He had developed the dive-bombing tactics of the deadly Stuka after observation of U.S. Navy planes ten years ago. Adolf Hitler gave him sole credit for Luftwaffe efficiency, "which has made it the best air arm in the world...
BERLIN--Colonel General Ernst Udet, 45, the mechanical wizard behind the Luftwaffe, who developed Germany's parachute troops and the dreaded Stuka dive bombing tactics, has been killed testing "a new type of fire-arm," according to an announcement which said his death was the worst blow of the war to the air force...
...pall of smoke was reported over Leningrad. A cloud of dust hid the battlefield north of the Pripet Marshes. A German reporter in a Stuka said well: "There is nothing but confusion beneath us." In those seven days one fact stood up gaunt and real as the remains of a bombed wall. The Russians admitted on the third day that they had lost 374 planes while they had shot down 381 German planes...