Word: bomber
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...York the ticker tape rained down as they rode up the Broadway canyon. In Washington they shook hands with the President. Baltimore showed them a sham battle. In Detroit they visited bomber plants. Portland dropped rose petals on their broad shoulders. In Los Angeles they danced with movie stars...
...emerged the first hero of U.S. action in Europe, Captain Charles C. Kegelman of El Reno, Okla., who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for cool daring. Kegelman's plane lost a propeller and a nose section at near-zero altitude. One motor caught fire and then the bomber scraped ground, damaging a wing and punching a hole in the fuselage. Kegelman regained control of his plane and flew on from the target area, only to be faced a few moments later by intense fire from a nearby anti-aircraft tower. He dove straight at the tower, silencing...
...know there is a tendency to deride and disparage the bomber effort against Germany. . . . This attack is not going to get weaker, but is going to get continually stronger until, in my view, it will play a perfectly definite part in taking the strain off our Russian ally and in reducing building and construction of submarines and other weapons...
...Army as a whole is not yet completely sold on tank-destroyer battalions. Tankers themselves often say that the best defense against tanks is tanks. Tank-destroyer men say that fighting tanks with tanks is like pitting bombers against each other. They believe that, just as the plane to send against a bomber is a fighter, the machine to send against a tank is a fast tank destroyer (which incidentally costs one-tenth as much...
...exhibition building, which housed mild-eyed Holsteins and Jerseys during the annual Hagerstown fair, was fitted with jigs, converted into a production area for riveting bomber wings. The windows had to be boarded over during the racing season: as the sulkies sailed by on the oval track across the way, workmen dropped their tools to watch...