Word: assaulting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tricks and new weapons intensified the air assault on Japan...
...Land-based Army & Navy planes made their first coordinated attack with the flyers of Admiral William Halsey's Third Fleet, capping a week of unprecedented assault on the remnant of what was once the Imperial Japanese Navy. Among the Japanese casualties: the battleships Haruna (and no mistake, this time), Hyuga, Na gato...
...Dday, April 30, 1945, the assault waves were composed of Australian infantry. The Thirteenth Air Force mediums, heavies and fighters had been assigned the air combat duty. No other air force-R.A.A.F. or American-was included in the Battle Order...
...Seed of Hate. To Bull Halsey, the assault was the fulfillment of two longstanding ambitions. Ever since Dec. 7, 1941, he had been obsessed with the desire to hit Japan. That morning, four years ago, as planes flying from his flagship Enterprise to Ford Island were attacked by Zeros, Halsey exploded: "My God, they're shooting at my own boys! Tell Kimmel." Then it dawned on him: Kimmel already knew, and this was war. Halsey, as senior officer afloat, soon got an order to take command of all U.S. warships then at sea in the Pacific...
...Lippy") Durocher, umpire-eating manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, was charged with felonious assault on a fan who gave Lippy a piece of lip from the stands. Fan John Christian charged that Durocher and a ball-park guard gave him a working-over after Christian had shouted "Bum" and "Crook...