Word: stuka
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...snow-covered airport at Stratford, Conn. last week thundered a sleek, fat-bodied Navy Monoplane fighter with strange bent wings, not unlike a Junkers Stuka's. WPAsters working on the field's new runways gave it scarcely a glance, because it was an old sight. Almost every day for weeks past the new F4U had been rolled out of the Vought-Sikorsky plant across the road, had throbbed, roared, leaped into the air, whisked out of sight...
...Were killed or wounded in a sudden Stuka raid...
...fighting front, there was less German dive-bombing, due (the Allies thought) to a thinning out of the Stuka squadrons by machine-gun and massed rifle fire from Allied infantry. French pilots, meantime, discovered that their moteur cannon was a good weapon to puncture German tank turrets...
...Each Stuka carries four 110-lb. or smaller bombs in racks on the wings, but its big wallop is packed under the fuselage: a 1,100-lb. or 550-lb. bomb on a rack that can be extended as the dive is begun. Reason for extension: bombs released in a dive pick up speed faster than the ship, have been known to poke their noses into the whirling prop and blow dive bomber and crew to bits. The extension guides the bomb out of the propeller...
...speedster, a Stuka pilot comes in over his target at a maximum of 242 miles per hour, rolls or turns into his dive. Riding a bellowing beast that can step up to 435 m.p.h. in a vertical dive if it gets its head, he has diving brakes (strips that can be extended perpendicular to the wing) to keep his speed down around 250 for accurate bombing and a comfortable pullout...