Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...volunteered for the job. A West Pointer of the class of 1918, he resigned from the Army soon after World War I, asked for active service again after Pearl Harbor. British officials, whose effective administration stops short at Nagaland, soberly advised against his mission; but after a thorough aerial reconnaissance of the saw-toothed, jungle-matted mountain ranges, Trader Kehoe jumped off with their qualified blessings...
Vision of the future: in the abandoned cities, past the miles of empty apartment houses, private investors walk in desolation, clutching their worthless real-estate mortgages and municipal bonds. Overhead the sky is dark with airplanes-countless helicopters, aerial busses, cheap little air lizzies transporting workers to their country homes, their three-day work week over...
...Japs use a vast aerial stagger system to guard their empire and train air crews for combat. Freshman flyers go to central China to bomb relatively undefended towns. Then they move by easy stages to Formosa for additional training. In the Canton-Hong Kong area, they next bomb southern China and come up against Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force. The survivors proceed to Thailand and Burma, where they still tangle with the Fourteenth and also with R.A.F. and U.S. airmen based in India. Last stop for those still alive is the Southwest Pacific, where the Japs concentrate their best...
...This sustained-combat record removes all doubt that either Germany or Japan can match the combat planes and air crews of the United States Army Air Forces. . . . We are well on our way to maintaining clear-cut aerial supremacy in all nine theaters of operation...
Since the Battle of Java, Pilot Grant Mahoney of the U.S. Army Air Forces has been sweating out a fifth aerial victory, which would make him an ace (TIME, Jan. 11). Last week Grant Mahoney, by now a major, was still a four-plane man. But south of Lashio, Burma, he riddled and destroyed four more Jap railroad engines, became a locomotive...