Word: 26s
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...south came Task Force 2, commanded by handsome, music-loving Colonel Claude Clement. A regiment of Mungs (little mountain people from Hoa Binh country) and tough Vietnamese soldiers, wading neck-deep through rice paddies, cleaned up the river villages. Wherever organized opposition was encountered, spotter planes called in B-26s and Hellcats, directing their fire bombs. Meanwhile, Foreign Legion paratroopers, back in harness after dreary months of bunker building, chuted down into the hills south of Choben...
...soon as the mist cleared, De Lattre sent in his Hellcats and B-26s with bombs and napalm. The Viet Minh soldiers fled, leaving behind 1,200 dead, 3,000 wounded and 400 prisoners. Four days later the French reopened Route Coloniale...
...reality, as well as the appearance, protected Hanoi from Ho. Overhead, French-piloted U.S. B-26s roared into action for the first time in Indo-China, bombing Communist troops and supply dumps. Next day, Communists attacking the French perimeter were "everywhere repulsed...
Douglas Aircraft Co. began cleaning out the ⅞ of a mile-long, 62-acre factory in Tulsa, Okla., in which it made B-24s and A-26s during World War II. Douglas hopes to be at work within six months turning...
Just when the situation looked the blackest on his right flank, Michaelis got two badly needed battalions of reinforcements. Then, at nightfall, a minor miracle roared out of the northwest sky. A flight of seven B-26s, fully loaded with bombs, came winging in. They had been unable to find their primary target, asked a spotter plane over the embattled 27th Regiment if he had any job for them. He certainly did. The spotter guided the B-26s-with only enough gas in their tanks to stay in the air 20 minutes-to General Kim's 8th Regiment, just...