What is "heavies"

Usage examples of "heavies".

Hence, until Biak could be taken, the heavies would have to continue operating from Nadzab, 440 miles east of Hollandia or from the Admiralties.

Last night 507 aircraft, all but 166 being heavies, carried 1400 tons to Kiel.

I took the hats right off a bunch of brass, then I got to laughing so hard at all them heavies chasing their headgear that I forgot to lower my landing gear when I came in.

The other three heavies, light cruiser No-shir 0, and a Japanese destroyer now concentrated on Gambier Bay.

As for our cousin John Bull, a lot of British Hotchkiss heavies were either resold privately after World War I, or blow-torched.

Fifth Air Force sent out a total of sixty-two B-25s and fourteen A-20 bombers, with sixteen B-17 heavies going in first from high altitude, against Madang.

The Zeros were still climbing as the Flying Fortresses dropped, and the heavies would have been in for a rough time except that the second wave was coming in.

The second wave of nine heavies hit two or three of the transports, one of which was sending flames into the air from its stern.