The cunning searchlights haunt the midnight skies, Where chains of emerald balls of fire rise, To mingle with the spark of bursting shells-- High in the darkness where the bomber dwells!
Flannigan went to the Corps School, first as a bomber and afterwards as a Lewis gun instructor; and I never had his services again.
To convert a rifleman into a rifle-bomber in a week's training was of course out of the question.
In that case I'll assign you a fast bomber and an objective.
The space inside the bomber was very limited, for it was not intended as a passenger plane.
Flights were heading out, bomber squadrons were calling in or taking orders.
We wish to know the approximate number of fighter and bomber craft based upon Africa.
The Airacobras had spotted the lone bomber and were peeling off like hounds scenting a buck.
A fighter-bomber was roaring down toward the truck.
She was a plywood job, light, but the fastestbomber in the world.
When he got back, the bomber boys would know where to drop a stick of bombs.
I have a bomber up on your secret field to take us off, if we can get up there," Stan answered.
Grimly he watched the hundred-pound egg slide free as the bomber lifted and zoomed upward.
The German pilots seemed puzzled over the way a bomber had vanished into thin air.
As he had suspected when using the glasses from the higher level, it was a Yankee bomber that lay partly hidden among the bushes where it had fallen.
It is a flight across the Atlantic to America in the big bomber plane, and starting this very night!
But almost as lightly as a snowflake touches the ground he brought the wheels under the big bomber in contact with the ice.
He lost no time in commencing a spiral climb for altitude, boring upward with the powerful bomber in a way that was wonderful.
So he once more looked down, filled with a sudden fear lest the gallant fighters in that adventurous bomber had paid dearly for their success.
Tom was already busily engaged, after the bomber had been wheeled partly around, in order that he might have the benefit of what light remained with the departure of day.
Just as soon as I can get that bigbomber here, and the permission to take on the job, well start some fine night for Berlin and give Heine the jolt of his life.
This Martin bomber can be run by three hands, although several more might be used if the right kind were found.
Fact is, I'd planned it all out in my mind long ago; had it more than half arranged at the time I ordered that monster Martin bomber built at my own expense and shipped over to France.
It looked very much as though the loss of the big bomber was not the only penalty they had paid for their daring raid.
Only for prompt work it would have at least disabled the bomber so that its usefulness for the present would be nil.
What if something happens to hold up those notices until it's too late for even Colin's big bomber to catch up with the steamer?
The bomber leaped to his feet and without a word to Kentucky leaped across the trench and ran along its further side, swinging another bomb by its stick-handle.
I missed you coming across just after that bomber slung one in on the machine gun.
As Stan closed in on the dive bomber it suddenly seemed to explode in his face.
Other flights roared away to strafe the French coast, or to meet incoming bomber formations, or to do scout duty; but Allison and his crew just sat around and groused.
This report says His Majesty's carrier, Staunch, has on board a new type of dive bomber which put a pocket battleship out of action and later landed upon the deck of the carrier.
He was sure Allison had picked the Stuka on the right so he took the one on the left, leaving the center bomber for Garret, who wasn't getting in as fast as he should.
The startled crew of the bomber immediately came to life.
Now the Messerschmitts decided the crazy ship was a bomber and not a fighter.
The bomber staggered and winged over, spilling men out of her hull like sacks out of a van.
Pinkish flames spurted from the mid-section of the bomber as it whirled about, sliding off on one wing with flames, red now, belching out of it.
Others appeared in precise formations and on one occasion a whole bomber crew {p.
I knew of a few instances in World War II when bomber crews and antiaircraft gunners had loosed a few bursts at Venus.
There were similar sightings in North Korea two years later--and FEAF Bomber Command had caused a shortage of blast furnaces in North Korea.
I was making my headquarters at an air base where a fighter-bomber wing was stationed.
I suggest that the next time you are outdoors and see a bomber go over at high altitude you look at it closely.
The reason for the weird effect that startled so many Southern Californians was that when the refueling is taking place a floodlight on the bottom of the tanker airplane lights up the bomber that is being refueled.
Lewis first saw the UFO coming in from the north, lower than the B-36; then he saw it pull up to the big bomber as it got closer.
Through a mutual friend I met one of the fighter- bomber pilots who had known Arnold.
That done with, he kicked off the wheel brakes and started to trundle the giant bomber out onto the field and down to the far end of the take-off runway.
And I also know that the bomber is waiting there to fly you to Moscow.
And then the pilot, navigator, and radioman of the Moscow-bound bomber reported at the Commandant's office.
And those aboard certainly didn't possess the strength to move the bomber around as you'd hoist up the tail of a pursuit ship and move it.
A Yank lease-lend bomber that had not been converted over to Russian Air Force use.
There were five, and as I suspected they were inside the bomberto be out of the storm.
He wanted only to arrive safely in Moscow, and as quickly as this Wellington bomber could get him there.
I know that at Aberdeen a British bomber is awaiting you.
We've got to make them think that only two of us came over, and, finding out that our plans were shot high wide and handsome because the bomber was captured, that we called off the deal and lit out for home as fast as we could.
Like a statue of solid stone, he sat hunched in the seat, letting the bomber trundle forward, and keeping his gaze fixed on the dark shadow of trees ahead.
Would they be able to get away from the bomber in time?
Nothing but mass upon mass of dirty grey clouds through which the Wellington bomber prop-clawed, as though it could go on forever, and still there'd be clouds.
He realized that it would have to be a medium-sized bomber at least, in order to carry the number of passengers to be brought back.
The giant twin-engined Handley-Page bomber was tried out, proved efficient, and justly considered better than anything of its kind that had previously taken the field.
It originally comprised two day-bomber and two night-bomber squadrons.
As the Stealth Bomber slides East night advances swift-footed over the Empire, over the roll-call of the New World Order.
Aunty Eve who always kept the Aspidistras flying high up in her Georgian house on the windy Terrace from marble urns had lipstick bomberpilot red & nails the colour of flame.
By dusk on 30 December, the landing force had overrun the defenses of the airfields, and at noon of the following day General Rupertus had the American flag raised beside the wreckage of a Japanese bomber at Airfield No.
Certainly the conversion of black bomber pilots to fighters did not meet these modest demands.
Black bomber pilots were converted to fighter pilots, and the bomber crews were removed from flying status.
That the one black bomber unit happened to be organized out of existence was pure accident.
The last radio report from the bomberplaced it over Lake Superior.
First of all, no one knows precisely what route that bigbomber was flying after the radio conked out.
Now, for an outfit that is literally flying twenty-four hours a day, their safety record is amazing; statistics show that a man is safer riding in an SAC bomber than he is driving in the family car.
An incoming wave might cause the huge bomber to ground-loop at the moment of her take-off, but that was a chance that had to be taken.
Finally they got around to showing the bomber group their temporary quarters.
The briefing room filled quickly, until the space between the long table and the walls was filled with the officers of four bomber squadrons.
About thirty fighters had attacked the bomber formation as they approached Rabaul.
The bombersank through the fluffy cloud mass like a swooping eagle.
One Jap bomber followed another at irregular intervals, flying at a very high altitude.
The oncoming bomber had dived at the last moment under Barry’s ship.
Now the bomber was facing in the direction from which she had come.
If an American bomber crew can’t take us through, no human power could do it.
I’ve been asked to supply four of my best bomber crews,” he told them, “for a secret and difficult mission.
To smash the Jap task force utterly, every bomber that could fly would be needed.
Shortly after noon the big bomber took off again, headed for Accra, six hundred miles to the eastward.
An antiaircraft burst rocked the bigbomber like a cradle.
A second bomber rose from behind the wall of dark green jungle, and three more returned from some patrol or bombing mission.
Rolling as near to the burning bomber as he dared, he set the brakes, and followed Hap Newton through the hatch.
En route they will work out a battle problem, and then proceed to Pearl Harbor to take aboard two torpedo and two dive-bomber squadrons, that are waiting there.
That chap walking past that dive bomberover there.
Well, sir, if he were a torpedo plane or dive bomber or scout bomber pilot, he would have somebody along with him.
The High Command is marking time while the bomber boys give Germany a good going-over.
Dawson roared as he sent the huge bomber over on wing, and down.
For instance, a bomber pilot insisted that a woman had ridden on the wing of his ship all the way to Asia, dropping from the plane in the highlands of western China.
He had tangled with an Asian fighter group escorting a hot, high levelbomber over the north pole.
While protecting the southwestern flank of the American forces in the Philippines, the XIII Bomber Command was extraordinarily busy on 26 October.
Two fighter groups were on Morotai, one heavy bomber group was on Noemfoor, off the north coast of New Guinea, and two heavy bomber groups were on Biak; they completed 175 sorties in strikes against airfields on Mindanao and the Visayan area.
The Americans had established an air base in the midst of the Japanese-held Philippine Islands--a base within mediumbomber range of Luzon, the principal American target in the archipelago.
The XIII Bomber Command, which carried the burden of this assault, was to neutralize targets previously hit and protect the southwestern flank of the American forces in the Philippines.
Others held the Japanese off until they could retreat, shoeless and in their shorts and undershirts, either up the bluff to the headquarters of the V Bomber Command, or to the road, where an infantry company had come up in support.
And there they both crouched, breath locked in their lungs, as the Zeros piled down and raked the crashed bomber from twin rudder to nose.
They walked almost three quarters of the way in silence, but when they got close to the waiting bomber Group Captain Bainsworth slowed up to a halt and faced them.
And you can bet your sweet life that that Newfoundland-bound bomber isn't going to wait for us.
And twice he was as sure as he was that he was over a foot high that the bomber was completely upside down and whanging along on its back.
That killed off flying speed and brought the bomber to a stall.
The fact was that the bomberseemed to realize that it did have a master, and was grudgingly obeying that master's commands.
Lockheed Hudson bomber cut a straight and true path westward at some eight thousand feet above the long rolling grey-green swells of the North Atlantic.
A few moments later Dave and Freddy were in the bomber and Squadron Leader Hixon was slowly opening up the engines to move the aircraft forward toward the take-off runway.
Nor did he dare take his attention off the bomberfor one split second to take a flash look.
But with so much of the bomber left unguarded, it wouldn't be long before Jap bullets and air cannon shells would rip home and pull down the curtain.
He saw the nose come up, felt the bomber mush forward and start to falter in the air, and he saw that strip of clearing come zooming up toward the belly of the fuselage.
Whether Dawson could get the bomber down onto the ground, or whether the Japs could reach the aircraft with their murderous blasts and send it to earth a raging ball of flame.
The last ounce of its flying and gliding speed spent, the bomber dropped the rest of the way like ten ton of loose brick.
Slowly the half submerged bomber was pulled over until it was bumping against the hull of the U-boat.
An Army jet bomberwill take you and Mr. Wetzel to a point as close to Burdette, Colorado, as can be managed.
The plans called for the bomber to fly at a high altitude, then come in on Burdette with jets off and drop us by 'chute.
The bomber pilot was a fresh-faced youngster who chewed gum and claimed to have been the second-ranking tennis player in Des Moines, Iowa.
Jake dived to a shell hole and began firing back, felt somebody slide and scramble down beside him, turned to find the bomber picking himself up and shaking a blood-dripping left hand.
He had a couple of Mills’ bombs in his pockets, but added to his stock from a half-empty bucket he found lying by a dead bomber in a crater.
Just before another attack came they were reinforced by two bayonet men, and one bomber with buckets of Mills’.
But as he staggered back a bomber thrust past him and threw straight and hard into the shell-hole where the rifle had flashed.
He remembered crawling past a deadbomber with a bag full of Mills’ beside him only a score of yards away.
