Word: twins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first enemy waves had the job of breaking up the bomber squadrons. Rocket-firing planes stayed out of gun range, fired broadsides from formation. To the U.S. crews, the battle at this stage had a weird naval quality. A Fortress gunner watched a group of 18 twin-engined Me-110s circle from the rear, fly up in line three-quarters of a mile away; then, like torpedo boats, execute a superb 90-degree turn and lob their rockets simultaneously-"a broadside of rockets that seemed to burst in an unending line of red and yellow fire." Some bombers were under...
German accounts later told of new air mines-explosive containers trailed by steel cables from planes at high altitude and dropped to burst amid the bomber squadrons. Old weapons and young pilots were also thrown into the struggle. Obsolete Stukas (dive bombers), even a clumsy twin-engined transport milled about, trying to confuse the U.S. formations. The German radio said that Reich Marshal Hermann Goring had ordered into battle "youngsters who never before had engaged in combat...
General Silence. Having announced their jet plane, the Allies relapsed into discreet silence on details. About all that could be learned was that the present model has two engines and has been mistaken in the air for a twin-tailed P-38 Lightning. Imaginative press dispatches promptly dubbed the aircraft a rocket plane, which...
...Twin Perils. In the north, Armenian General Ivan Bagramian was hacking away methodically at the Vitebsk-Mogilev line (see map, p, 27). The great German stronghold of Vitebsk was engulfed. Orsha was in danger. And at any hour, the four huge Red Armies idling in the north might roll west, crush the thinly spread forces of Field Marshals von Kluge" and von Küchler, pour into old Poland, the Baltic States...
...Junkers-who were the army's heart, mind and will power. By a subterfuge, the caste escaped the ignominy of defeat in World War I ("We were stabbed in the back," the Junkers said). But now no subterfuge would help. For the Allied intent was clear: "The twin roots of all our evils-Nazi tyranny and Prussian militarism-must be extirpated. Until this is achieved there are no sacrifices that we will not make, no length in violence to which we will...