Word: thunderbolts
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...Hubert Zemke was the leading U.S. ace operating in Europe, with 19½ air kills.* They included almost every type of German aircraft, even a jet-propelled plane. He bagged at least one of his total with each major type of U.S. fighter plane used in the ETO-Thunderbolt, Mustang, Lightning...
...worked without rest. The men crouched in trenches, in curious, strangely intimate warfare, often within the sound of the enemy's voice. In the nearby town of Dornot, American and German dead lay sprawled together in too hot a corner for immediate recovery. Occasionally, when the rain lifted, Thunderbolt fighters whipped in to dive-bomb and strafe strong points...
...Republic's P47 Thunderbolt, which mounts eight .50-cal. machine guns, can also carry at least a 1,000-lb. load...
...Argentine Historian Leopoldo Lugones on onetime President and historian Domingo Faustino Sarmiento ("the Argentine Jefferson"): "Danger was his habit and wrath his beauty; his dimensions became those of a deity, cleaving the air like lightning, riding the tempest with a cloud at his belt and a thunderbolt on his shoulder...
...City, Pa., was ready to welcome home its hero, 25-year-old Lieut. Colonel Francis Gabreski, top-scoring Thunderbolt pilot of the Eighth Air Force and top U.S. ace. Gabby's fiancée, pretty Kay Cochran, 20, had made all the plans for a wedding...