Word: whippets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Whippet-racing...
...faster. It seemed to have a wingspread of about 25 feet and to be about 40 feet long, and seasoned R.A.F. observers on the Ward estimated its speed at no less than 600 miles an hour. Spitfires trying for a shot at it fell behind like bulldogs chasing a whippet. More of these might follow...
...make these gains, Japan used a small force-probably no more than 50,000 men. But fleets of trucks, mobile cannon, some 600 whippet tanks and armored cars gave this army its winning asset: mobility on the vast Honan plain (in three weeks the Japanese covered some 300 miles...