Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pathway to the ultimate goal of a United Nations advance from the South Pacific is long and tortuous. Closer to Tokyo by 600 miles is the U.S. air base at Dutch Harbor. Here last week, at the northern end of the Japanese arc, U.S. air power struck a solid blow...
...force and frequency. The Bremen raid involved perhaps 400 to 500 planes. The force which plastered Düsseldorf and its great steel works was closer to the 1,000-plane figure than any which had hit the Continent since June 1, when Cologne took a knockout blow...
...rising. The enemy had bet his life that a hurricane would not blow...
...wasn't so much that Vag was unhappy, it was just that this news struck home. Although it was obviously necessary, it was still a hard blow. After a summer of daily classes, a summer of bright colors on Widener steps, of girls in the Yard and high voices along Wig row, they expected you to start all over again as though nothing had happened. A week's respite and the long, grey eternity of the Fall Term would begin again. Long evenings in the House library, rain and fog, November hours, early dusk, tutorial conferences, all stood beckoning ghoulishly...
...authorities say it can be, others say it cannot. But, if it can be done, then the following pages give a clear statement of why it should be done, and of how it will work. Through no other course can American mass production strike so quickly so hard a blow at the actual heart of the enemy. An authority on today's air power and its use, Francis Vivian Drake, assisted TIME in assembling and checking the calculations which appear below. They are calculations as to what can be done with today's air planes, the types...