Word: wulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thinks about is getting his chickens home," said Admiral Boddam-Whetham's brother, an official in the British fuel ministry (three other brothers died in the army in World War I). "Being a sailor, he fears fog and ice more than any U-boat or Focke-Wulf. He is very reserved and hates to talk about himself...
...nearly three years the gremlins devoted themselves exclusively to the R.A.F. But recently Sergeant Gunner Z. E. White of Dallas, Tex. had the guns on "Big Punk," his Flying Fortress, jam just as he got a German Focke-Wulf 190 in his sights over the North Sea. When White reported what had happened, Pilot Oscar Coen, one of the three original members of the R.A.F.'s Eagle Squadron, nodded his head sagely. A noted gremlinologist, Coen knew then that the gremlins had joined the U.S. Air Forces and that the time had come for their activities to be explained...
...there will be more Brazilian cooperation but probably more competition too. Thus Brazilians are sure to ask Washington for sleek U.S.-made transports to bolster Condor's fleet of 23 Junkers and Focke-Wulf transports. Meanwhile Brazil toys with a deal to give Argentina's Corporation a route to Rio if Condor gets a route to Buenos Aires...
...prove its worth at higher altitudes - the late-model P-40F with a Packard-made Rolls-Royce Merlin (British) engine instead of the Allison. According to published reports, the Merlin P-40 has shot up to 30,000 feet (on a par with the Spitfire and the Nazi Focke-Wulf...
They found what they were looking for. Four of them were jumped up by 25 of the Germans' new Focke-Wulf 190s and Messerschmitt 109s. They fought them on their own. And one page of what will have to be a book of proof, was complete. Gunners in the Fortresses knocked down three German planes, damaged at least nine more. But U.S. airmen and especially Bomber Commander Ira Eaker were interested in something more than that the Fortresses had beaten off an attack against overwhelming odds. They were most interested in the fact that again all the Fortresses...