Word: avoiding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Twentieth Bomber Command's China base after thirty-six hours of wandering just a few miles behind the Honan battlefront where the B-29 I was in crash-landed flying back from Japan bombing. I spent most of the time with crew members working out a scheme to avoid being captured by Japs, while Jap fighters and bombers throughout the morning mercilessly strafed and bombed the ship into a total wreck. I fortunately escaped any injury. I hope my story on bombing will reach you in time for publication. (It did. See WORLD BATTLEFRONTS.) For the second time...
...Allied Expeditionary Force battled two stubborn foes. One of them, the Germans, was reasonably predictable. The other, the weather, defied close analysis and for that reason gave the Allied high command the kind of trouble it had hoped to avoid...
...military targets were to be bombed heavily. But the warning, by leaflets dropped from planes, might be less than an hour before the attack. Then the people must leave the towns immediately and on foot, taking only what they can easily carry, and hurry to open country. They must avoid main roads, railways and bridges, avoid bunching...
...larger ticket sale has been made than had been anticipated and the committee suggests that tickets be purchased as soon as possible to avoid disappointment...
...Senate War Investigating Committee said: "Some of those in the armed services have opposed any reference to the fact that many of our requirements either have been met or shortly will be met. They believe that the truth should be kept from the public in order to avoid overconfidence. This is a strange argument. ... I have noted that the armed services show little inclination to play down their military and naval accomplishments. ... If overconfidence is not caused by such disclosures, it will not come from telling the facts about war production. . . . The only result of a false pessimism about...