Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right, the R.A.F. was ready, and Bremen caught 75 minutes of bombers' hell. On aircraft plants, dockyards and submarine works fell the same destruction which blanketed Cologne and Essen earlier. The British said that the 52 planes which did not return were less than 5% of the armada; ergo, more than 1,000 bombers had assaulted Bremen...
...last fortnight the Japanese had amassed a great armada. According to the U.S. Navy's later communiqués, this fleet must have included at least five carriers, three to five battleships, many cruisers, destroyers and submarines, with troop transports to occupy points which the advance forces had battered...
...weather was finally fine enough to give Germany a look at the fiery face of the future. From British fields the mightiest air armada man had ever seen thundered across the channel, swept through German anti-aircraft defenses. Over Cologne (pop. 768,000), fifth largest city of the Reich, they dropped a trainload of bombs...
...would strip the Western seas of British and U.S. vessels-leaving the Germans momentarily free to roam and raid -while he concentrated an armada in the Pacific. "With this great armada, perhaps 300 miles wide, I would sweep down the seas towards Japan and I would blast every Japanese flag out of the path...
...experts explained with weary patience that a relief force is out of the question. Transportation is the insoluble problem. Heavy bombers could fly the more than 1,000 miles from Java, the nearest Allied base to Manila Bay, but not the lighter escort planes that must accompany such an armada. Water-borne planes and troops would have little, if any, chance of running the Jap's naval gantlet. Said Deputy Chief of Staff Major General R. C. Moore to the House Appropriations Committee: "We could have a lot of them [bombers to MacArthur] by this time, if we could...