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flaming coffin
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a DH-4 bomber aircraft US, 1919- We were given de Havilland DH-4s to fly, known as “flaming coffins,” and Curtiss JN-4 “Jennys.” — James Doolittle, I Could Never Be So Lucky Again, p. 57, 1991
- Airmen had become “pawns,” forced to fly antiquated biplanes like the De Havilland DH-4, which they nicknamed “the flaming coffin” because they claimed it easily caught fire when it crashed. — Douglas C. Waller, A Question of Loyalty, p. 20, 2004
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