Word: acked
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...middle of truck and passenger-vehicle columns were shot and blasted, careening over cars, blocking the columns. I saw one double column over a mile long-and I did not discover the end of it-in which only a few vehicles had not been burned or smashed. Volkswagen, sedans, ack-ack trucks, ammunition carriers, 47-mm. guns and hundreds of bicycles were irretrievably snarled...
...Germans had done their best to defend Ploesti with heavy smoke screens, a formidable thicket of ack-ack, a strong fleet of fighters. In addition to an unknown total of U.S. airmen killed, the number shot down and captured alive in Rumania was last week disclosed as more than a thousand. The Germans had repaired bomb damage with their usual nimbleness, had covered vital pipelines and machinery with massive roofings of concrete...
...Monthly production rate of torpedoes has been stepped up 40-fold, depth charges 60-fold. The Navy has added to its arsenal more than 125,000 20-mm. and 40-mm. ack-ack guns-and one billion rounds of ammunition for them alone...
...since the blitz had London taken so savage a beating. At dawn, at dusk, in fog, sunlight and darkness the robombs roared across the Channel, streaked through ack-ack and balloon cable defenses, pounded more of the city into debris...
Cockpit to Prison. His left leg was broken and punctured by an ack-ack burst. His back was terribly burned by raw gasoline. The foot of his injured leg was pinned rigidly under the rudder...