MORE SLANGUAGE OF THE R.A.F

... strongest. Pilots who go dicing or on a shaky-do are attacking a difficult and dangerous target; if it's an easy target it's a piece of cake. After they drop their bombs they sometimes stooge around to take a beaker, meaning to bang around to have ...

Published: Friday 28 August 1942
Newspaper: Carluke and Lanark Gazette
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 714 | Page: 4 | Tags: none

R.A.F. SLANGUAGE

... strongest. Pilots who go dicing or on a shaky-do are attacking a difficult and dangerous target; if it's au easy target it's a piece of cake. After thee• drop their bombs they sometimes stooge around to take a beaker, meaning to hang around to have ...

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... Breeching Harness; Trace Harness; Trap and odd Harness. The BARN MACHINERY includes : — Combined Root Cleaner Finger-piece Cutter; Cake Breaker with pulley for power; Avery Platform Scales and Weights; Pulley with endless chain; Four Oak Lime Spray; Small ...

Published: Friday 02 October 1942
Newspaper: Western Gazette
County: Somerset, England
Type: Advertisement | Words: 1290 | Page: 1 | Tags: none

LONCDON

... strongest. Pilots who go dicing or on a shaky-do are attacking a difficult and dangerous target: if It's an easy target it's a piece of cake.** After they drop their bombs they sometimes stooge around to take a beaker. meaning to hang around to have ...

Published: Saturday 10 October 1942
Newspaper: Tewkesbury Register
County: Gloucestershire, England
Type: | Words: 1118 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

A STURDY CADET CORPS

... performed by the men the Royal Navy. No rosy picture was painted, no story of an easy, adventurous and care-free life. Adventure there Is, of course, with occasional pieces of cake —as Lleut.-Commander Neal put it—but on the whole life In the Royal Navy Is ...

Published: Friday 06 November 1942
Newspaper: Leamington Spa Courier
County: Warwickshire, England
Type: Article | Words: 1162 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

TRIPOLI TARGET FOR DAY AND NIGHT BOMBS

... TRIPOLI TARGET FOR DAY AND NIGHT BOMBS “Piece Of Cake,” Pilots Say From Our Special Correspondent Cairo, Sunday. 'TRIPOLI has become Mail Run Number Three, Tobruk being Mail Run Number One, and Benghazi Mail Number Two. During the last few weeks, 100 ...

Published: Monday 30 November 1942
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 916 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

TRIPOLI FIRST ON BOMB LIST

... of Labour L ates currently In force rument training centres, and will' be recruited So far our pilots say Tripoli is a piece of cake compared with Tobruk or Benghazi. In Tobruk 64 heavy and 64 light ack-ack guns were found when the Allies entered the ...

Published: Monday 30 November 1942
Newspaper: Newcastle Journal
County: Northumberland, England
Type: | Words: 635 | Page: 3 | Tags: none

OUR PILOTS FLY U.S. AIRCRAFT

... intensive bombing, but it also increases the danger of our planes crashing with one another. So fa», our pilots say Tripoli is piece of cake compared with Tobruk or Benghazi. In Tobruk, 64 heavy and 64 light ack-ack guns were found when the Allies entered the ...

Published: Monday 30 November 1942
Newspaper: Daily Record
County: Lanarkshire, Scotland
Type: | Words: 533 | Page: 6 | Tags: none

THE BATTLE OF TUNISIA Enemy ' s Strength in the Air DIFFICULTIES OF OUR SQUADRONS Allied Line Now Shortened

... men are standing up to on the forward airfields . Most of them tell me that an Italian f : ; h er or bomber is a ' piece of cake . This i ? said not boastingly but factually It is the Hun who is the enemyantl v-: v is putting up a tough resistance ...

Published: Monday 14 December 1942
Newspaper: The Scotsman
County: Midlothian, Scotland
Type: Article | Words: 1473 | Page: 5 | Tags: none

Another Striking War-time Film Comes to Belfast

... away, and fuel tanks lealthug. is called pretty warm show. while a round trip to Cologne and back without mishap is a piece of cake. It is an audacious kind of bravery without recklessness of which they themselves seem to be absolutely unconscious. I ...

Published: Saturday 26 December 1942
Newspaper: Belfast Telegraph
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 1468 | Page: 2 | Tags: none