Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...smaller fry who make up most of the industry were not production-minded. Rich, pink-cheeked Bomber Builder Reuben Fleet of Consolidated Aircraft, sensing the uncomfortable pressure of his biggest customer (the Navy) complained of the "risky margin" of 2¼% at which he might be forced to make planes. Having got some new plant as a gift from the British, many planemakers wanted a similar gift from the U. S. By year's end, U. S. aircraft was in an obvious mess. This month little Republic Aviation laid off 50 men because it could not get parts. Deliveries...
...TIME erred. Lieut. Nicolson was the first fighter pilot, but not the first airman, to get a Victoria Cross in World War II. The first four British airmen who won V. C.s were bomber crewmen: Acting Flight Lieut. Roderick A. Learoyd (attacking a special objective on the Dortmund-Ems canal in the face of heavy point-blank fire); Sergeant Thomas Gray and Flying Officer Donald Edward Garland ("most conspicuous bravery" in wrecking the Albert Canal bridge); Sergeant John Hannah (extinguishing a roaring blaze in a bomber instead of bailing...
...engines. Hooded men in brilliant yellow, red, blue and green uniforms (to denote their functions) swiftly work the planes forward to take-off position. Every few seconds the roar of an engine in full throttle thunders through the echoing ship as another plane takes off. Only when the last bomber is in the air and the formations shrink into the sky does she settle back to the quiet peace of a ship...
...calculate that Hitler has 30.000 aircraft of all types and a probable bomber strength of 7,000. ... He has never yet directed against us anything like his total hitting power. ... He had to train new personnel in long-distance night-bombing tactics. He is doing it. ... The Nazis have 16,000 instructors now working on six-week courses in factories. We have got a couple of thousand. They have 200 training centres. We've got 40. ... They have really mobilized the whole area they control. Conscription is the honest word for mobilization and let's stop being mealymouthed...
When Franklin Roosevelt, an old friend of Carlos Dávila, heard how things stood, he knew exactly what to do. By executive decree he set aside the Army's rule that women cannot fly in Army planes, put a four-motored Boeing bomber at Senora Dávila's disposal. One day last week an Army ambulance rolled Carlos Dávila's lady out to Mitchel Field, L. I. With a crew of eight, accompanied by her husband, an Army surgeon and a nurse (Olympia Fumigalli), Señora Dávila took...