Word: tails
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some 1,000 miles from Gibraltar, near the Tyrrhenian Sea, Axis ships bustled out-a force of cruisers which suddenly turned tail, trying to draw off some of the convoy's protective strength. The British dispatched a submarine in pursuit, held their course steadily for the funnel...
...Sawyer. He makes a head-on run at the leader, pours in a couple of bursts. The I-97, camouflaged with bright green paint, falls away in smoke. Five others do a quick flip to get on Charlie's tail, but he dives and pulls rapidly away and then comes up again on the corner of our tails...
They had to learn the tremendous, all-important value of flying judgment-from the moment of take-off until they touched down once again on the airport. They had to learn to respect the tail gunner of an enemy bomber. But until cockiness got the better of them, and they scraped close to death, they could not learn to leaven courage with caution. And that took time...
...student navigators, riding on motor-drawn platforms above a classroom map, work out problems they would face in the air. At Harlingen, Tex. he watched blindfolded enlisted men take machine guns apart and put them together again by touch, as they must in the gloom of a tail turret on a night-bombing mission...
...sudden starting shock, and smoothly eases the load into the air. Even the towrope is of stretchy nylon. One plane can accumulate a glider train by successive passes at the uprights. Each glider has its separate rope, snubbed individually at varying lengths, to the tow plane's tail...