Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last fortnight across the Atlantic came details of another brand of German attack from the air: high-altitude, level-flight bombing, which the U. S. Army Air Corps uses to the exclusion of the diving attack. Returning travelers who saw the daylight raid on Paris, hundreds of other attacks through France, told of hearing raiders so high that they were out of sight in the clear sky. Yet these planes, starting out their campaign by smashing up France's airfields and pursuit resistance, methodically and unspectacularly brought a creeping paralysis to France's communications. Road junctions were reduced...
...bombsight, or had developed one of their own. Quick were Army Air Corps officers to say that the U. S. sight was still a U. S. secret. But none doubted that German ingenuity had developed a bombing sight for World War II that was modern, scientific, accurate. Typical level-flight bomber in the medium range (24,900 Ib. fully loaded) is the sleek, two-engined Heinkel He. in K which carries a crew of four, makes bombing a highly coordinated job for two men, the pilot and the bombardier. These, with other types (Dornier, Junkers, etc.), were the ships that...
...advantage of level-flight bombing from high altitude is that it keeps bombers out of effective range of anti-aircraft batteries, forces defending pursuit to climb higher and farther to give battle. Its only limitation in good weather is the accuracy of the bombsight...
...dock awaiting President and party; the crowd gave a stifled cheer; the President's big right hand went up in the air and the big smile flashed in recognition. There was the usual 21-gun salute barked from the shore batteries as the President crossed the dock-level gangplank; there was the usual trilling of the bos'n's whistle piping the President over the side as eight boys stood at attention; the four-starred flag of the Commander in Chief of the Army & Navy was broken out at the mainmast; a bugle sounded, bluejackets scurried about...
...which Adolf Hitler promised Great Britain so increased in violence last week that its full blast was expected hourly. From a tentative nocturnal patter, the rain of German air bombs swelled to widespread showers by day, then to fierce successive cloudbursts at all hours, delivered not only by lofty level-flight bombers but by scores of Stukas which dived shrieking to demoralize men on the ground, machine-gunning people and cattle indiscriminately. Iron censorship and brave British disdain concealed the true extent of damages and loss of life, but both rose inevitably as the official daily tallies of shot-down...