Word: armadas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the first four (chosen from 50 applicants) were graduated as full-fledged "sky pilots," planned to spread their several wings over Africa, China and Mexico. Beaming with pride, Bob LeTourneau viewed them as forerunners of a "mighty armada of flying missionaries...
...pivoted its great war effort from Europe to the Pacific, it came face to face with a startling fact-it was waging war against a god. Its sea armada had already crushed his island outworks. Its planes were pulverizing his cities. Now its armies were preparing to invade the sacred soil of his homeland...
Less than two weeks after the end of the Iwo Jima battle the U.S. Navy had assembled the greatest invasion armada ever to operate in the Pacific: 1,400 ships and up to 100,000 soldiers and marines of the new Tenth Army. When it was all ready, they poured this power into Japan's front yard...
...This was the first invasion of my life where nobody was puking. I waited for it but nobody did it. We left from somewhere in France. Everybody left from all over. It was very funny, the ride with this terrific armada over France and Belgium. Fifteen minutes before I had to jump I started thinking over my life. I went over everything I ever ate and did and I finished up in twelve minutes. I had three minutes left so I started to read a book by Eric Linklater...
...Some 6,000 Allied airplanes raided Germany, but the vast armada scarcely stirred a conversational eddy. Only the Daily Sketch recalled that, a year before, Winston Churchill had promised that "our bombing will increase beyond any power yet imagined...