Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Franklin Roosevelt: 'We'll give you the keys to the city." More & more nosegays fell at the feet of old Mr. Hull. Winston Churchill termed him a gallant eagle; Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden called him the father of the Moscow Declarations' security clause. The left-wing U.S. press, which had clubbed him over the head for months, stammered apologies...
...related types which the Russians call Stormoviks and the Germans "Black Death." Slow, cumbersome, low-ceilinged, the Stormovik is heavily armored. Its primary job is tank and fort-busting, which it accomplishes with eight rocket bombs under each wing, two heavy cannon, four machine guns...
...named Richard Dudziak, started to fire into the engine of an approaching plane. It looked like an American SBD but the location of two blue-burning exhausts meant a Jap torpedo plane. As the plane passed over, Skipper Berlin could almost reach and touch the red ball on the wings. One wing tip knocked off the Who, Me?'s antenna, and another scraped the forward gunner. The plane swept like a piece of paper into the darkening...
...ugly duckling painted on the bow. The duckling pointed to itself with one wing and above was the legend, "Who, Me?" The skipper was Theodore Berlin, a slender, dark Reservist of 22 who had come to the Navy from the University of California at Los Angeles...
...enemy under these conditions had become a nightmare of exploding planes and disappearing friends. Lieut. Colonel Beirne Lay Jr. described the sensations and sights of the Regensburg raid in last week's Saturday Evening Post: "A shining silver rectangle of metal sailed past over our right wing. I recognized it as a main-exit door. Seconds later, a black lump came hurtling through the formation, barely missing several propellers. It was a man, clasping his knees to his head, revolving like a diver in a triple somersault, shooting by us so close that I saw a piece of paper...