Word: wulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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HORACE F. WULF Lieut. Colonel, Infantry Fort Benning...
Something had gone wrong with the delicate synchronization of an air attack over Germany; escorting Mustangs had failed to rendezvous on time with the Fortresses. The mixup was expensive. A squadron of Focke-Wulf 1903 jumped the U.S. bombers. One Nazi fighter got in a long burst; a Fort exploded in flames. But instead of dropping out of the tight formation, the blazing wreck caromed crazily into the next Fort. That, in turn, hit a third. The third lurched into a fourth, and the fourth into a fifth. Other men of the squadron watched in horror as the five shattered...
...British fighter planes, from a carrier protecting an Atlantic convoy, shot down an unarmed (cargo-carrying) American C-54 transport, mistaking it for a Focke-Wulf 200. Lost: a civilian crew...
...heavy-bomber base in England, Chaplain Major Randolph L. Gregory, onetime Washington Baptist pastor, confirmed an oddly rough and reverent tale: One of the pilots at the station, a man of genuine piety and strict devotion to business, found his bomber butting into a buzz saw of Focke-Wulf 190s over Europe. Over the intercom to his gunners he started repeating the Lord's Prayer...
...frustrated Nazi was at 27,000 feet, madly popping his Focke-Wulf's guns at U.S. bombers well out of his range...