Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allied ordnance experts sped to Bromskirchen, probed V-2's innards, gave a superficial description which confirmed the facts already gleaned from exploded V-2s: it is 45 feet long (minus its explosive head), six to seven feet in diameter at the middle, tapered at head and tail; it has a four-foot compartment filled with radio dials and gadgets by which its flight is directed. The methodical Germans had carefully packed a twelve-page manual of instructions with each giant rocket...
...placid as the mirror-smooth Neckar River. Here the war seems something far away. On this Sunday, the first after Easter, the people of all the towns in the Neckar Valley were out in force for the great weekly business of churchgoing. The big men were richly dressed in tail coats and high hats, their great stomachs resplendently vested in oyster white or French grey...
...this international battledore, all sorts of shuttlecock expressions have cropped up. An instructor picked up the French word for take-off-decoler, now tells his students, "O.K., let's decolate." One student wrote on a plane's maintenance report: "Tail wheel crazy." Another promised to reprove a third trainee for carelessness: "I'll give to him the hell...
Elsewhere the campaign went faster. On Luzon's long southeastern tail, elements of Major General Oscar W. Griswold's XIV Corps, spearheaded by Brig. General Hanford MacNider, landed to capture Legaspi and its airfield. Battle-seasoned doughs of Major General William H. Arnold's Americal Division, with Rear Admiral Russell Berkey's group of Seventh Fleet warships blasting the way for them, stormed ashore on Cebu. Midget submarines, attempting to interfere with the landings, were driven off. The Americals captured Cebu city, second largest in the Philippines (peacetime pop. 145,000) with its fine port...
...breakfast there were fresh eggs. But many a tight-stomached trooper passed up this crashing luxury and wanted only scalding black coffee. Soon they were at the airstrips, piling aboard the transport planes and gliders, stacked nose to tail in neat, herringbone formation, with their towlines carefully coiled on the ground...