Word: winging
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Puncture-proof tanks are not the only reason intact German ships are scarce in Britain. No amount of buckskin and raw rubber can withstand the buzz-saw effect of eight machine guns, set in fours in the leading wing-edge of British pursuit planes so that their fixed fire converges. The British censorship last week released photographs of such a pursuit ship: 1) being fed its python-like ration of bullets; 2) standing over a drift of empty cartridges during a trial burst of fire...
...they do when nervous, Nazis grew sarcastic. "What a sum!" commented Deutscher Dienst on a $100,000 relief installment from the U. S. "Not even a whole airplane; just the left wing of a bomber...
...England last week arrived the first Australian contingent, a full squadron of trained airmen-pilots, gunners, observers, mechanics. They marched ashore singing The Beer-Barrel Polka. Their commander is as handsome a fighting man as the stenographers in London's Australia House have ever seen: Wing Commander Leon Vincent Lachal, nicknamed "Stumpy" though he is tall, blue-eyed, with wavy blond hair. (A number of Australians already flying with the R. A. F. may be transferred to "Stumpy" Lachal's command...
...second 5 to 3, and tied the third 6 to 6 the forward combines showed that they had come a long way since the season's start. Rob Perkins was changed to right defense filling Sherm Gray's position, while Rob Gorham held down the left wing position on the first forward line. With Gray back in action tomorrow. Perkins will probably be shifted up to the forward line...
Exasperated by such belittling, and badly in need of some victory talk in the face of Germany's naval reverses last fortnight, Air Marshal Hermann Göring last week caused Lieut. Colonel Karl Schumacher, in command of the wing assigned to protect Germany's northwest sea approaches, to appear in the theatre hall of the Propaganda Ministry at Berlin. To assembled correspondents, Colonel Schumacher-43, heavy and bald-declared that he was surprised the British would attempt raiding on a clear day. He saluted British gallantry and skill, but explained that his men's only problem...