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Concluding his speech, Ropper mentioned his respect for the air plane as a machine of war. "The air bomber has more significance for history and politics than any other weapon since the invention of gunpowder," he stated...
...half days. Without batting an eye, General von Falkenhorst, who had meantime alighted on the Oslo airport with a battalion, proceeded to bring more troops into the Oslo district the same way he got there: by Junkers transports, under cover of menacing demonstrations over the city by bomber and fighting craft. Experts now know that a score or two of Allied bombers could have paralyzed the Falkenhorst expedition by a determined attack on Fornebo airport at any time in those first 48 hours. The Nazis say they counted on British sluggishness. They were not disappointed...
...midnight last week three German planes were spotted skimming low off England's southeast coast. Soon antiaircraft guns began to bark up & down the shore. A heavy Heinkel bomber, her belly freighted with mines, was squarely...
After eight months the war had come home to England with a smash-bang. Some $400,000 damage had been done to English property. Casualties were a middle-aged Clacton couple, killed in their sleep when the bomber fell, and 162 curious townsfolk injured when she exploded. None was hurt who obeyed the rules, took cover in cellars, lay doggo until the all clear signal. A raid shelter a few yards from the crater was unharmed. While firemen and volunteers were clearing away the ruins, three babies were born in a half-smashed Clacton maternity home. They will have company...
...weeks ago it became known that the one-year rule has been chucked out the window. Douglas' new bomber, Bell's cannon-carrying pursuit ship Airacobra, Curtiss' P-40D pursuit, the new two-engined Lockheed and Grumman pursuits were released for sale to the Allies. Along with them went the Army Air Corps' most prized engine design: the liquid-cooled, 12-cylinder Allison...