Word: wulf
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novelty of "firsts" was still fresh. Captain Frank K. Hill Jr. won the first U.S. dogfight victory over Europe by shooting down a Focke-Wulf 190 in the skies over Dieppe. (Modestly he claimed only a "probable" victory, because he did not have time to watch the plane crash.) Captain Hill was 23, from Hillsdale, NJ. He had been a high-school athlete, had worked as a plumber's helper. Now his picture showed him at a British airport after the battle (see cut), grinning toothily from his cockpit like a youngster tickled about his first solo...
...stoutly back. Night fighters, with the help of pursuit, shot down 29 bombers at Hamburg in the first raid, 32 in the second, 30 at Düsseldorf. But the British over-all loss was kept below the marginal 5%. And the Germans had their losses, too: nine Focke-Wulf 1905 here, six or seven there...
...Bremen's sprawling docks funnel most of the German Army's supplies to Norway. It is a funnel that must be plugged if Norway should be the site of a frontal assault. Bremen, too, was the home of commerce-raiding, long-range Condor planes and the Focke-Wulf aircraft plant, where some of Hitler's deadliest fighter planes were built. Aerial photographs showed that Focke-Wulf machine and pressing shops had sustained a heavy bomb hit, destroying a quarter of the buildings and extensively damaging the rest. The British believed that Focke-Wulf fighter output had suffered...
...Focke-Wulf s attacked him and Pilot Officer Richard Lewis while they were harrying a Nazi steamer. One of the Focke-Wulfs riddled Finucane's plane and wounded him in the leg and thigh. By radio he ordered Lewis to run for home. Lewis disobeyed. He hovered behind Finucane's tail, fought off repeated Focke-Wulf attacks. One of the Focke-Wulfs crashed into the Channel. Finucane and Lewis scurried back to their home airdrome. Squadron Leader Finucane taxied his fighter up to the line and then collapsed at the controls...
...this time is the Germans' use of aircraft. Here again, the use of upper Norwegian and lower French bases has proved invaluable. At first the Germans used aircraft principally as eyes, and to sow magnetic mines, but with the development of two long-range fighter-bombers, the Focke-Wulf Zerstorer and Kurier, which can sweep halfway across the Atlantic and back, they began to use planes for destruction as well. The British ogling of Irish bases is not so much for the sake of the Navy as for the R.A.F., which is hampered in the Battle of the Atlantic...