Word: thunderbolts
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...ship can give short shrift to a crack medium fighter caught hedgehopping. But for nailing enemy bombers and escorting friendly ones at really high altitudes (25,000 to 40,000 ft.), it looks as if the U.S. can now claim the title. So say the pilots who fly the Thunderbolt...
...Destruction comes from the speed of the discharge, not the total amount of electricity: the quantity of electricity in an average thunderbolt would be worth only a few cents if tamed and metered...
Correspondents were allowed to cable strong hints that the thunderbolt might fall soon. Last week the Allied Commander in Chief, U.S. General Dwight Eisenhower, said: "For the immediate future I know that each of us has no other thought than to do his full duty and more in clearing Tunisia." Eisenhower's "immediate future" started a flurry of newspaper speculation. For reasons best known to the Allied staffs, they were clearly telegraphing the punch...
...will be up to the planners and plotters of Souk-el-Spaatz to defeat the Luftwaffe, support their own troops while they maul the Axis and block the enemy's evacuation from Tunisia. Their thunderbolt is an air weapon, but they have designed it to strike when & where it will best aid the men and weapons on the ground. This integration was the great achievement of Spaatz & Co.; how to achieve it was something they had learned the hard...
...Troubadour. The man in whose hands rests the thunderbolt has had a typical veteran U.S. air-force man's career. It varied from the norm only in details. In 1899-at the age of eight-redheaded Carl Spatz (later changed to Spaatz) was the youngest linotype operator in Pennsylvania. He operated the machine in the Boyertown, Pa. print shop where his Pennsylvania Dutch father and grandfather published the Berks County Democrat. Carl had a happier time playing the guitar, which Father Spatz taught him in the evening. Father Spatz, who became a state senator, got him an appointment...