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Word: wing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Superfortress, is a four-engined bomber and the biggest long-range bomb carrier the world has ever seen. By Flight's description it can lug a load of more than eight tons 1,000 mi. (i.e., a 500-mi. radius), can carry three tons 3,000 mi. Its wing span is 141 ft. (Fortress span...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: Superfortress | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

Died. Lance Wade, 26, ace Wing Commander of the R.A.F.; in a behind-the-line crash; in Italy. The modest Texan had a score of 25 confirmed kills, one less than the U.S. record for World...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 31, 1944 | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...been cheated. Last week they identified the Mustang pilot as Major James H. Howard, of St. Louis. What was more, Major Howard had landed at his British base unscratched; even his ship had emerged from the maelstrom of Messerschmitts with nothing worse than one bullet hole in the wing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: Seen and Done | 1/31/1944 | See Source »

...They queued up on us, a whole mess of them, and I saw our right-wing man go down in smoke, and when I looked out the other waist window our left-wing man was gone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Papa Takes Them Home | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

...shell hit our right horizontal stabilizer. Then some more hit the right wing and made a patchwork out of it. ... By this time . . . flak had knocked out our No. 2 engine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Papa Takes Them Home | 1/24/1944 | See Source »

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