Word: aerially
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, 93 years after a flock of sea gulls from over Great Salt Lake providentially saved Brigham Young and his Utah Mormons from crop-devouring hordes of crickets, another aerial attack is under way against these insects. On an airfield near Elko, Nev., beside two small, light, open-cockpit biplanes, loll Department of Agriculture pilots, waiting impatiently like R.A.F. pursuit pilots for reports that the enemy has been spotted...
...England, more air-raid conscious than other parts of the country, felt more secure last week. With a minimum of red fire, the U.S. Navy commissioned the mightiest fortress in New England's once thin aerial defenses. At Quonset Point, R.I., on the western shore of Narragansett Bay, Commander Andrew C. McFall listened to a few speeches, then took com mand of the Navy's newest and one of its largest air stations. The colors were hoisted, the watch set, and Quonset Point buckled down to work...
...eight days of the British-Free French drive for Vichy-held Syria were a weird combination of Blitz and bicker, glad-handing and heavy punching, pushover and furious resistance. Australian bayonets were sheathed; Royal Navy guns blasted. Opposing Frenchmen kissed or killed each other. There was both soundtruck and aerial bombardment. But at week's end General Sir Henry Maitland Wilson, the mixed show's producer, could look at his opening week with some satisfaction...
...Bengasi, and claimed to have destroyed 30. Three days later Army patrols attacked a land convoy between Tobruch and Salûm, and destroyed twelve more. British reconnaissance noted ex tensive digging on the escarpment around Halfâya Pass, only convenient gate from Libya to Egypt; extensive aerial preparations at the airports of Dérna and Gambut...
...which was made in Crete." The British came out of Crete still convinced, as they had been after Greece, that they were individually as good fighters as the Germans; but they were more amazed than ever at German military efficiency. They were particularly amazed at how precisely the German aerial and ground combat teams cooperated...