four-motored

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Big four-motored American-made Boeing Flying Fortresses bombed the German battleship Gneisenau in port at Brest, France, yesterday, from a height so “fantastic” that the scream of their bombs was probably the first inkling the Germans had of their attack, the British Air Ministry news service reported today.

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008
“Big four-motored”: “Boeings Strike from Great Height,” NYT, July 25, 1941.

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008
The next morning Rosie Rosenthal led the 3rd Air Division, part of a force of 1,507 four-motored heavies, back to St. Lô.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
The next morning Rosie Rosenthal led the 3rd Air Division, part of a force of 1,507 four-motored heavies, back to St. Lô.

Masters of the Air Donald L. Miller 2006
It would start with dive bombers, then great four-motored heavies would come, and then mediums, then dive bombers again, and then the ground troops would kick off, with air fighters continuing to work ahead of them.

The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945
It would start with dive bombers, then great four-motored heavies would come, and then mediums, then dive bombers again, and then the ground troops would kick off, with air fighters continuing to work ahead of them.

The Story of World War II Donald L. Miller 1945
Some were it was reported big four-motored jobs, some dive-bombers, some pursuits.

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