Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ladies Courageous comes in on a shattered wing and an unanswered prayer, noses over, and spills out a motley set of WAFS (see cut, p. 94) who later become WASPS. This whole covey of highly burnished cinemactresses looks more like Wam-pas cuties than like aeronauts. Judging by their actions, they cannot be trusted to pilot a perambulator, much less...
Homing Angel. "Here comes the Angel!" the Marauder pilots used to shout when Wing Commander Lloyd Vernon Chadburn brought his R.C.A.F. Spitfires into action. In escorting U.S. bombers on 60 sorties over enemy territory, Chadburn's wing lost only one bomber, accounted for 44 of the enemy (twelve by the Wing Commander himself). For this work, Chadburn became the first R.C.A.F. member to win a bar to his D.S.O. At Dieppe he had previously won the D.F.C. Home to Canada this week came blond, soft-spoken Wing Commander Chadburn, 24, for a well-earned rest...
That first pass hurt our formation a lot. Forts were goin' down off our left wing-bing, bing, bing. Guys came balin' out of all but one. That one blew up-no pieces, even as big as a wheel, just tiny junk flyin' through...
Another went into a funny flat loop with a full bomb load. Chutes came popping out just as one wing cracked...
...interrogation at No. 19 Moellergaten went on, the prosecutors tried a new persuasion: wide metal cuffs, slipped around wrist and knee, with a wing-nut attached, to press against an inner cuff like a brake band. When a pipe-length was applied to the wing nut for leverage, bones cracked like walnuts. With care, occasional recesses and dashes of cold water in the face, the pressure could be prolonged up to 48 hours. Gestapoman Rediess hoped his trick would serve to get the address of every illegal printing plant in Norway. Outside the muffling walls, the unwitting crowds continued...