Word: treetop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...heavy-laden Monsoon slashed through a treetop, dented a belly blister before she began to climb. This mishap did not interfere with her flight to Manchuria. Neither did an instrument panel fire en route, nor the discovery that three vital instruments (altimeter, rate of climb gauge and airspeed indicator) were knocked out, probably by the treetop. Duplicate instruments...
Recently he approached a tunnel near Siena at treetop level, released his delayed-action bombs just short of the mouth, pulled away in a vertical bank. The bombs popped into the tunnel like peanuts into the mouth of an urchin, and when they exploded they left the south end of the tunnel an impassable mess of rubble...
They went over at treetop level, doing close to 500 m.p.h., with their guns blazing. As they pulled up at the end of the field a burst of ground flak caught the Major's plane. Red flames began to lick out behind as he fought his way back up to altitude. Then Beckham's Florida drawl crackled through the interplane radio...
...wartime traffic problem. Only more planes can do that. But the Behncke-CAB row marks a milestone in air transport labor relations. Ever since 1934, when Behncke was an airmail pilot on the Chicago-Omaha run and was forced by bad weather to pancake his plane into a treetop, he has doggedly campaigned for greater safety in flying. Unhurt in the crash, he toppled ignobly to the ground while getting out of his wrecked ship, broke his leg, quit flying. Since its beginning in 1931 he has headed the A.L.P.A. (4,500 members), which he helped found. Reasonable...
...Point. That was the way it went the first day. The assault battalions had been cut to ribbons. Anyone who ventured beyond the beachhead and the retaining wall - and by mid-afternoon several hundred Marines had so ventured - was likely to become a casualty. From treetop concealment and from pill box slits Jap snipers and machine-gunners raked the Americans...