Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Duped by forged orders, their right wing gave...
Since Sir Stafford had once been leader of the British Labor Party's intellectual left wing, Conservative Neville Chamberlain was not in the market for his wares. But Winston Churchill, definitely was. The risk-all Churchill Cabinet was in favor of getting any friends it could. Fortnight ago they dispatched Sir Stafford to Moscow via the Mediterranean...
Germany's Stuka is an ugly, husky, single-motored monoplane with an upswept and backswept wing. Under its glass solarium are seats for pilot and gunner in tandem. On the wing's leading edge are two fixed machine guns, firing aft is another on a swivel mount, all primarily used for protection from enemy pursuit. The machine-gun sight in front of the pilot is also his bomb sight and, with no more complicated sighting equipment than that, he is able to make dive bombing as accurate as the U. S. Navy and its Curtis, O2C Hell Diver...
...France and Britain, King Leopold's 'was a ghastly decision, for the gallant Belgian Army was the vital left wing of their pocketed troops. The Belgian capitulation made the plight of Maxime Weygand's northern armies nearly hopeless. For Weygand needed planes, tanks, fresh divisions, and above all time to reorganize his Army, a sixth of whose best men had been cut off. All he had now was his own resourcefulness and the courage of France...
...over his target at a maximum of 242 miles per hour, rolls or turns into his dive. Riding a bellowing beast that can step up to 435 m.p.h. in a vertical dive if it gets its head, he has diving brakes (strips that can be extended perpendicular to the wing) to keep his speed down around 250 for accurate bombing and a comfortable pullout...