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Word: wings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three weeks earlier, Lanphier's squadron had whipped into Poporang Island with six planes, wrecked twelve float-Zeros, disabled a destroyer in an attack so fierce and low that Barber left three feet of his wing tip in the destroyer's funnel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: The Younger Generation | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...dashed off after her with the speed of light. I was sorry to see him go because I wanted to hear the rest of what he had to say about the speed of Professor Wing...

Author: By Ensign HERBERT S. balley, | Title: Electronics School | 5/21/1943 | See Source »

...like everybody else, but in spite of everything. I like it. It's a pleasure to work with such a fine bunch of men. Every electron in the school says the same thing. Just ask them. There's only one other thing I have to complain of. Sometimes Professor Wing goes so fast in his lectures, I can't keep up with...

Author: By Ensign HERBERT S. balley, | Title: Electronics School | 5/21/1943 | See Source »

...wing commanders, the men who run ATC's various theaters of operations, are largely Air Forces career men, but their commands too are liberally salted with many an airline expert in flying, operations, meteorology, airport construction and maintenance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AIR: The Limitless Sky | 5/17/1943 | See Source »

...Lieutenant Richard A. Brassler, School graduate of Class 5-43 us this week and is seen in from time to time making notes on of the instruction which have added to the course since his attendance last January. Lieutenant Bassler resigned to the Boston Defense Wing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SATISTICACKLES | 5/14/1943 | See Source »

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