Word: bomber
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Southern Germany, now almost immune to air attack, will be within range of Allied bomber bases...
...guard at the Vatican. And how he strained to imagine that scene! He says he had a queer sensation that night seven years ago when he had looked up at the beautiful Rome in his sister's face-and now he was looking down on it from a bomber...
...during a raid on the Nazi U-boat pens at St.-Nazaire, his bomber. Fortress 649, was badly hit and burst into flame. The fire sweeping the fuselage drove the radio operator and both waist gunners to "bail out. Emerging from his turret, Snuffy cast aside his own parachute, tackled the fire with extinguishers and water bottles. When he had used them up, he beat out the last flames with his hands. Meantime, he had contrived to man both waist guns in turn, helped to beat off harrying Focke-Wulfs and given first aid to the wounded tail gunner...
...airman, back again from Sicily with his medium bomber, relaxed at a dusty North African airdrome and sought words for the things he had seen...
...eager to get going that the intensive training ("Our planes were in the air at 7 a.m. each morning and sometimes we'd still be at it at 10 p.m.") did not bother him. He thought the B-25 (North America's medium-range Mitchell bomber, stripped of its radio, bottom gun-turret and Norden bombsight) was a lively ship...