Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies, from supposedly fog-bound British airfields, manage to keep an aerial counterattack hammering at Von Rundstedt's Ardennes offensive? This is a question which must have racked the German generals with agonizing curiosity. Last week the British unwrapped the answer...
Polluted Water. Last week General LeMay also disclosed a six-weeks-old cam paign to strangle Jap shipping by dense aerial mining of her coastal and inland waters. Nineteen missions had been flown ; the Navy had furnished the mines and mine experts. Parachuted into the water at night, the mines are the "magnetic" type; they sink to the bottom and explode when a ship passes close by. LeMay plans to keep the waters "polluted...
...Field Marshal Hugo Sperrle, 60, Bavarian brewer's son, longtime Luftwaffe commander, who helped stage the aerial massacre of Rotterdam and blitz on Britain...
Flying in double column, two great aerial task forces were converging on a target. Near Brussels the forces joined-the British 6th Airborne Division flying from England, the U.S. 17th Airborne from France. There were more than 3,000 transports, towing gliders and carrying men and equipment. They had 2,000 fighter planes and bombers running interference. If the planes had been strung out in single file they could have stretched in unbroken line from Paris to Berlin. The Allies' big parade was over its German objective for three hours...
Taught by Experience. They had moved into this wasteland of "wrecked masonry surrounded by city limits" on the hot heels of the doughboys. They had been preparing for their job since last September. They knew from aerial maps what damage the city had taken. They were familiar with its industries, its former government, its utilities. Colonel Patterson and his staff had worked out instructions for banks, police and fire officials, postmaster, communications men and all necessary functionaries...