Word: antiaircraft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Five got through her fighter cover and her wildly crackling antiaircraft fire. Four of them smashed into her. The fifth plane, knocked into the sea, freakishly bounced into her side and exploded, rupturing her skin near the waterline. Flaming gasoline spewed across her hangar deck. One bomb penetrated four decks, wiping out living quarters. Fire swept the forward part of the flight deck...
...Salvador Castaneda Castro's office stalked 100 Army officers. They demanded a governmental shakeup, including Army autonomy. Castaneda promised to consider their demands. That night, he ordered loyal Army units to arrest suspected officers. As one unit moved up on Ilopango airfield, two rebel planes took off. Loyal antiaircraft fire hit the first plane's gas tank. The plane crashed in flames. The pilot and the gunner were killed...
Sister city Kobe, 20 miles northwest, was still smouldering from an earlier attack. Flyers had driven through snow, fog, thunderheads, antiaircraft fire and fairly strong fighter opposition-but they had left Kobe "one hell of a hot place...
...Czechoslovakia a Russian antiaircraft battery camped by a wide and peaceful meadow covered with wheat near which grazed sheep. Wherever the Red Army soldiers looked, hundreds of wild poppies bloomed. Among them stood a sign. The Russians read: "Here used to stand the village of Lidice" (obliterated in 1942, together with all but two of its inhabitants, by the Nazis in reprisal for the assassination of brutal "Hangman" Reinhard Heydrich...
...planes approached. . . . Antiaircraft fire got one. Another came in low . . . struck and swept across the deck house, knocking out some of our guns and starting fires in the 40-mm. magazine. Within 30 seconds two planes hit the afterdeck house, sealing several men to their deaths in compartments below. Just then a Corsair came chasing a Japanese right over the mainmast. The Jap took off half the yardarm and the Corsair took off the other half. The Jap crashed in the water. The Corsair pulled out with a wing damaged, shot down another plane and then crashed. Another ship rescued...