Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason for the sudden aerial onslaught on Italy was to blast supply bases and communication lines that serve Erwin Rommel, as Montgomery in Egypt started his attack (see p. 26). But probably far more effective was the shaking it gave to Italian nerves under Benito's waning moon...
Squadron Leader John Lucian Smith's eight leatherneck pilots got 14 Zeros that day, with no U.S. losses. This was a fast and dangerous life for the accountant-trained son of an Oklahoma rural-mail carrier. But it was highly satisfactory to blast the fears of former commanding officers who, on fitness reports, had often left open to question Smitty's "presence of mind." Nineteen planes shot down in half as many months by the 27-year-old flyer was a fitting answer, and probably made John Smith of Oklahoma...
...late spring 18 new blast furnaces will be in operation, giving the mills 6^ million tons more pig annually, or enough when added to their home scrap and what is turned back by steel-using industry, to meet all of next year's needs...
...transfer to a destroyer and Mac practically carried me up those ropes. I was pretty weak. He put me in the sick bay and said: "You'll be all right now, Joe." Then we got dive-bombed and a big hole was blown in the sick bay. The blast blew everyone around and I just about passed out. Mac got blown to pieces. The water poured in and the backwash washed me right out through that hole. Another gunboat came steaming in and picked me up. They laid me beside an Oerlikon gun and the row was awful. Jeeze...
...this year is almost the same. Once again the Crimson enters the game a rank underdog. Once again, Blaik has built a crushing attack around hammering Hank Mazur and ripping Ralph Hill, two bruising triple threat backs. And again, the slow-to develop Harlow attack may be ripe to blast the Army...