Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General La Verne ("Blondy") Saunders launched the Twentieth Bomber Command on the heaviest aerial assault yet staged from Asiatic bases. He threw his full striking power into a 24-hour assault; he challenged the defensive reserves of the Jap air force with the first daylight raid on the homeland-the kind of mission for which the Superfortress was designed...
There was no peace for the Japs anywhere. The noose of aerial bombardment, from every point of the compass, was drawing tight...
...Canada was getting ready to bid for her share in the postwar air-transport business. She was in a prime strategic position. The Geography of World Air Transport, just published by Washington's Brookings Institution, showed that the Canadian airfields formed part of two of the three principal aerial gateways from North America (the third: southern U.S. to South America...
Preparation for Armor. The American offensive opened with one of the greatest aerial preparations in history. The bomb carpet was laid mostly on the Saint Lô-Périers road and beyond it in an area 2,000 yards wide and 9,000 yards in depth. Nearly everything in the bomber's book went into it-from 500-pounders carried by heavies to 23-lb. fragmentations scattered by mediums and fighters-a saturation of about ten bombs to an acre...
...some of the gaps, smoke pots placed for protection. Wind waved the smoke aside. At the end of 72 hours, 28 bridges (rail and pontoon) were out. Said Uncle Joe, one of the war's great tactical air-forcemen: "This is an outstanding feat in the history of aerial warfare...