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British English American English Longsleeve knit top jumper [1] sweater [2] [3] Sleeveless knit top sleeveless jumper, slipover, [4] knit tank top sweater vest [3] Sleeveless dress worn over a shirt Pinafore, pinny, pinafore dress [5] Jumper, jumper dress, dress Old-fashioned style of apron Pinafore apron [6] Pinafore, pinafore apron [6]
Martin B-10, 25th Bombardment Squadron, Panama Canal Zone Martin B-10 during exercises over Oahu, Hawaii, 1941 The B-10 began a revolution in bomber design. Its all-metal monoplane airframe, along with its features of closed cockpits, rotating gun turrets (almost simultaneously with the 1933 British Boulton & Paul Overstrand biplane bomber's own enclosed nose-turret), retractable landing gear ...
This is a list of acronyms, expressions, euphemisms, jargon, military slang, and sayings in common or formerly common use in the United States Marine Corps.Many of the words or phrases have varying levels of acceptance among different units or communities, and some also have varying levels of appropriateness (usually dependent on how senior the user is in rank [clarification needed]).
USAAF B-29 Superfortress, a heavy bomber. Heavy bombers are bomber aircraft capable of delivering the largest payload of air-to-ground weaponry (usually bombs) and longest range (takeoff to landing) of their era. Archetypal heavy bombers have therefore usually been among the largest and most powerful military aircraft at any
Advertisement for overalls, 1920. In Britain from the mid 19th century until the 1970s, dustmen, coalmen, and the manual laborers known as navvies wore flat caps, [6] corduroy pants, heavy boots, [7] and donkey jackets, [8] often with a brightly colored cotton neckerchief to soak up the sweat.
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The Dyle et Bacalan DB-10 was a heavy night bomber, designed in France and flown in 1926. It was a twin engine, high wing, metal frame monoplane , distinguished by a very thick centre section wing which formed the forward fuselage and housed the engines.
Strategic bomber; Rockwell/Boeing B-1 Lancer: Long-range multirole heavy bomber Rockwell International (now part of Boeing) B-1B Air Force 43 Supersonic Strategic Bomber, will serve until the 2030s, to be replaced by the Next-Generation Bomber: Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit: Low observable strategic stealth heavy bomber Northrop Grumman: B-2A Air ...