Word: messerschmitt
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...identity withheld) in Britain recently visited a station of the Fighter Command on a quiet day and was invited to take a turn over the field in a Spitfire. With R. A. F. escort, the American went aloft, was churning peacefully over the countryside when a group of uninvited Messerschmitts dropped in for a dog fight. The R. A. F. flew off to fight. In the interests of neutrality, the lone American streaked for the field, was gleefully pursued by a pot-hunting Nazi. When the bullets began to zip past him, the American abandoned neutrality, flipped over his plane...
...reply to the Messerschmitt fighter-bomber was an improved model Hurricane mounting twelve machine guns instead of eight in its wing-edge. As described, one burst from its dozen guns is enough to chop up an enemy plane...
...When a Messerschmitt plane fell out of a dogfight, missed his country home by inches, "most-bombed" U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's Joseph Patrick Kennedy, father of nine children, declared: "Bombing ... as far as it interrupts the night's rest ... is nothing new to married men who, like myself, have many children...
...except at the Ruhr bottleneck, but the broad new Autobahnen (speed highways) helped guide night pilots to Augsburg (northwest of Munich), which in the 15th and 16th Centuries was one of Europe's great trade centres and now has, besides the ancient palaces of its merchant princes, the Messerschmitt aircraft plant...
...Isle of Wight, a Messerschmitt plummeted straight down a well...