Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...Marshal is a rank corresponding to lieutenant general in the land army; air vice marshal corresponds to major general; wing commander to lieutenant colonel; squadron leader to major...
...from sparing The Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina, Nazi invaders dashed straight for her capital, drove her to refuge in England. Taken to London by a British destroyer, she was met and kissed by King George, welcomed to Buckingham Palace's Belgian wing (so called because Leopold I always stayed there in Victoria...