Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four in Hand. A P47 Thunderbolt pilot in Italy fired a long burst at a Messerschmitt 109 over Verona. The enemy's right wing flew off, hit another German plane. Both ships exploded. No one was more surprised than the U.S. pilot when his ship's automatic motion-picture films were run off. Reason: some of his fire had hit two other German aircraft, destroyed them...
...already yielding military profits and the German High Command has now a tough decision to make: whether to dip into its central strategic reserve (believed to be from 40 to 50 divisions) to try to salvage the situation in Rumania. Swedish military sources estimated that the German southern wing must have at least 20 fresh divisions if it is to defend the vital Ploesti oilfields, source of one-third of the Reich's oil. The estimate may or may not be accurate, but that defense the Germans must undertake...
Farther east on the left wing, Malinovsky's army captured the coastal fort of Ochakov and steadily encroached on the German lines before Odessa. As things were going, it looked as though the Germans, if they were to extricate their troops, would have to evacuate a good portion of them...
...visited war factories, ate dehydrated food, sampled weapons and aircraft. What he asked for was shipped ahead. For his air chief, Washington assigned Cochran, who named him "The Man," instantly liked him. Wingate called him "Dear Phil." To others the pair was "The Beard and the Wing...
...briefed his motley crowd of intellectuals and cutthroats. On March 5 and 6 Wingate struck with his main force (bigger than early dispatches indicated) in a way new to the Japanese. Instead of many weeks hacking through jungle as in the first campaign, the Raiders arrived in hours. "The Wing" and his men seized a field behind the Japanese lines, built an airstrip, flew in the Raiders and their supplies. Wingate praised American cooperation in one of his last interviews: "Without it we'd never have been able to accomplish so much...