Word: twins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next morning the convoy reached the vicinity of Lae, where more Zeros undertook to protect it. Then George Kenney's airmen really started to work. Besides Fortresses, Liberators and Lightnings, George Kenney has samples of almost every type of combat plane the U.S. can produce: twin-engined Boston (A-20), Marauder (B26) and Mitchell (B25) bombers, Kittyhawk (P-40) fighters, plus some Australian Beaufighters and Beaufort bombers. The turbo-supercharged Lightnings can hit the Zeros high, and the heavily-armed Kittyhawks catch them when they come down...
Brazil and my country-the twin Gibraltars of freedom-will stand guard in the Western Hemisphere . . . more than good neighbors . . . good brothers...
Reunion in Amarillo. To the White House went a plea from Widow Mary Phillips of Shawnee, Okla. Her twin sons, Bobby and Billy, 19, had enlisted together, had gone to Sheppard Field, Tex. for training together. Now for the first time in their lives, they had been separated. One had been transferred to Arizona, the other to Amarillo Field in Texas. Could they not please be reunited...
...slosh of manufacturers' publicity releases, out of starry-eyed speeches about far-distant planes that will "make the angels gasp," one fact emerged last week: the U.S. has another pursuit plane in battle and the first reports look good. Lockheed's long-ranged, twin-Allison-engined P-38, nicknamed Lightning, suddenly blossomed into action around the world...
...proved the soundness of tampering with planes until the bugs, one by one, are eliminated. Pushed by General Arnold and the Lockheed officials, who never lost faith in the unorthodox, twin-fuselaged pursuit ship, the P-38 is now not only the high-altitude plane it was designed to be. Its long range enables it to escort bombers on round trips well over 1,000 miles. Its heavy, concentrated fire power (guns from the nose instead of the wings) is valuable for strafing airfields or supply columns. A "maneuvering flap" and engines which rotate in opposite directions make it more...