Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsmen raised eyebrows over both sides' claims, one fact they accepted as obvious: the long inactive Chinese air force, once destroyed, once reorganized, composed of Russian, Italian, French, German, American, British and Chinese aircraft and men, had again been revitalized. That the Japanese might have difficulty maintaining their aerial superiority was indicated by the arrival via British-controlled Hong Kong of huge airplane shipments from western Europe, of other flying fortresses from Soviet Russia via Soviet-controlled Outer Mongolia...
...principal object of the raid was not China's provisional capital, but the arsenal across the river at Hanyang. Although the arsenal was undamaged, a crowded circular area facing the Yangtze was destroyed at the cost of hundreds of lives. To Japan's aerial warriors the raid was in celebration of sacred Emperor Hirohito's 37th birthday...
HENDAYE--Loyalists tonight hastily removed non-combatants from the city of Castellon de la Plana on the Mediterranean, 42 miles north of Valencia, as fleets of Insurgent warplanes sped down the coast blasting a path for Generalissimo France's offensive to isolate Madrid from the sea. More than 450 aerial bombs were reported dropped on Castellon during the last 24 hours while other squadrons dumped bombs on Valencia, Sagunte, and Oropesa...
...expedition aims to make maps of this region, which is described as one of the few which still is unknown. Most of the work can be done by aerial photographs, but it is necessary to survey triangulation points from the ground and take panorama photographs with a special 120 degree opening...
After the expedition returns to Valdez from the wilderness, the rest of the summer will be spent making aerial surveys for the Institute of Geographical Exploration...