Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Colonel Hilsman's first act when the war began was to throw 1,500 Japanese into the clink. When the Japs struck at Davao, first by an aerial assault and then by landing party, the news from Mindanao thinned out. All Manila could say was that "fighting continues." The Japanese were not fighting a silly, diffused battle for the Philippines. They were playing heavily on the assumption that they could wear down Philippine supply-especially of planes and ammunition-and strike hard before more could come from the mainland. In snatching Davao they were also going after a base...
...putting some British units far south of Bengasi, Rommel seemed to be facing disaster. His only outlet for the forces caught on the Barca Plateau is Bengasi. Under bombing and shelling from the sea, the port may become a jagged-edged bottleneck. This week the British began increasing their aerial activity against Axis Libyan ports. They hoped they were entering the last round of the Ritchie-Rommel fight-to-a-finish...
...French and British methods of training air corps personnel, began whooping it up for a bigger air force in the '20s. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for successfully leading five amphibians on an 18,000-mile flight through South America, the first of the Pan-American aerial good-will tours. Over Buenos Aires another plane crashed into Dargue's. While he was still too bewildered to think straight, he was thrown from his wrecked plane. His ripcord caught in a bit of debris which opened his parachute and he floated to safety...
...battle's great lesson besides Japanese skill and guts, was the importance of the aerial torpedo in fleet actions. Cecil Brown broadcast: "It's apparent that the best guns and crews would be unable to stem a torpedo-bombing attack if the attackers are sufficiently determined"-and insufficiently opposed by defending aircraft. After this battle, a capital ship without air screen must be reckoned nearly as vulnerable as one without armor. But a capital ship with an air screen is, as far as experience shows, still better than any other kind of ship afloat...
...American-operated China National Aviation Company, which specializes in such spectacular aerial adventures as flying a DC3 with a patched-up DC2 wing, threading across Japanese lines at night and aiding in the evacuation of doomed Chinese cities, added another hair-raising chapter to its history last week...