Word: armada
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...fighters climbed briskly to 30,000 feet. Berlin's anti-aircraft cannon hammered with fury and 43 of the four-engined bombers were downed. But within the space of half an hour 2,800 tons of explosives plummeted into the torn city-90 tons a minute. As the armada headed home, smoke from the fires of Germany's capital rose 20,000 feet in the air. It was the war's heaviest raid on bleeding Berlin or anywhere else...
Fifty miles across at their narrowest, the Tsushima Straits are Japan's historic doors to the Asiatic mainland. Over them centuries ago Regent Hideyoshi's armada sailed to battle the Koreans and send home 38,000 enemy ears pickled in wine. Upon them in 1905 crusty Admiral Togo smashed the Russian fleet. Presumably the submarine knocking on the door last week was American. It had achieved one of World War IPs most daring submarine penetrations of enemy waters, a feat ranking with German Günther Prien's entry at Scapa Flow, the Jap invasion of Pearl...
...practically incommunicado. (City fathers were sure that the 10,000 soldiers, sailors, Coast Guardsmen in the area were all on the prowl.) The girls were forbidden dates, drinking, smoking, gum-chewing. They could not talk to a man "without permission." They were surrounded at all times by a massed armada of gimlet-eyed chaperons, including 20 of their mamas, and a special platoon of Atlantic City matrons, hand-picked for their motherliness. Six well-armed Atlantic City cops, on "antiwolf patrol" under Acting Sergeant Robert Silvagni, flanked the girls wherever they went...
...Guinea jungles one day last week, Japanese troops, dug in for the defense of Lae, lifted their eyes to the skies and saw Kyoku Okuda's warning suddenly materialize. Rumbling overhead were Allied bombers, fighters and transports-the largest air armada ever assembled in the Southwest Pacific. From the transports hundreds of parachutes were dropping like blossoms into Markham Valley...
...wants no such government taking over the U.S. fleet and the U.S. air armada...