Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lightning (Lockheed P-38). This twin-tailed twin-engined single-seater, most unorthodox of all fighters in World War II, has proven a sensation. One of the fastest of pursuits at high altitudes, it can also lug bombs on low-altitude missions, fight its way out when bombs are dropped. Long-ranged and heavily armed, it can do almost anything a medium bomber can do, is one of the world's best and most versatile aircraft...
Boston (Douglas A-20). Long used by the British both as low-level attack bomber and as night fighter (Havoc), the twin-engined A-2O is fast, heavily armed, rugged, typically versatile and a heavy favorite with pilots and-crew. It is also in use in the U.S. Army Air Forces...
Flying the supply lines of the world, the U.S. has its best transports. Besides the old reliable Douglas DC-3 (military versions: C-47 and C-53) and other converted airline models it has three new ones. One is the twin-engined Curtiss Commando (C-46), specifically built for the job and already proven as a rugged, speedy carrier of big loads. The second, with which airmen are even better pleased, is Douglas' Skymaster (C-54), a four-engined modification of the DC-4. The third is the (EUR-87), a cargo modification...
...stab into enemy waters 1,250 miles from Tokyo (TIME, Sept. 13) sounded like an anticlimax. According to the communiqué finally issued last week by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet: 80% of little Marcus Island's military installations, seven twin-motored Jap bombers, hangars, fuel and ammunition dumps, shops and living quarters were destroyed; an enemy trawler was sunk. After pounding the 740-acre island for nine hours from the air, losing two fighters and one torpedo plane, the U.S. task force, commanded by air-minded Rear Admiral Charles Alan ("Baldy") Pownall...
...zero hour the bulldozer advanced on the village and from the western sky at the same moment there swept an air escort of a single R.A.F. twin-engined Beaufighter, thus ensuring that Tommy would have his air cover against any resist ance during operations. As the bulldozer advanced into "action," the fighter dived on the village, firing a succession of Very-light (flare) cartridges. Resistance collapsed. The "enemy" surrendered and the operations were concluded...