Word: antiaircraft
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Occasional Japs made for our task group, but the Combat Air Patrol or the antiaircraft guns shot them down...
...little ships stuck to their picket line, and the men stuck to their guns. They set a world's antiaircraft record by shooting down 490 planes during the 82-day battle. They went to "general quarters" 150 times. The picket linemen's spirit was set down for history in a message sent by one little ship in April: "Have been hit by two suicide planes; shot down the third; am taking damaged destroyer...
...antiaircraft rocket capable of exploding within ten yards of a target ten miles in the air.† (Said Lieut. Colonel Keck: the Allies expect that rockets will soon replace all other types of antiaircraft weapons...
...British last week revealed a fantastic antiaircraft weapon of their own: aerial minefields. Laid by old bombers just before an air attack, the air mines were suspended from balloons and small parachutes by piano wire; when a plane hit the lower part of the wire, the delicately attached mine would slide down and hit the plane. The British claimed that air mines downed at least a half-dozen German planes over London during the blitz. Once a small boy found a wire lying on the ground, yanked it, blew up a house six blocks away...
...second plane, piloted by Captain Francisco Ponce, buzzed over San Salvador. At dawn Pilot Ponce dived his Lend-Leased North American attack bomber straight at the National Police Barracks, killed six of the defenders with his ten bombs. Wounded by antiaircraft fire, he managed to fly on to the haven of a Guatemalan airfield. There he claimed that he had dropped his bombs in self-defense...