Word: bombards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Daily, General MacArthur's heavy bombers hit Jap reinforcement bases to the north. U.S. reinforcements arrived and unloaded just before the Jap returned with a battleship-supported surface force, proceeded to bombard Henderson Field at will...
...year scrounge for armament had equipped them all with firearms, even if some were ancient fowling pieces. Most of them had uniforms and steel helmets; in the most dangerous invasion zones they had Bofors guns, machine guns, light mobile Smith guns and a thing called the Blacker Bombard, which lobs 14-or 20-pound high explosive shells at moving targets (the Home Guard practiced with old baby carriages) with startling accuracy at 300 yards' range...
...usual silver dollars, twenty-five of which are awarded over the Professor's program every week, will not be given out by the Network for fear that the combatants will bombard one another with them...
...Countries, the R. A. F. and the Fleet Air Arm blinded the enemy. British squadrons bombed airfields from Sidi Barrani right to Tripoli. For hours the Italians could only guess what was happening. At the same time the British Fleet swung in to bombard Maktila, Sidi Barrani and the Italians' road to the rear. The Italians were attacked simultaneously from the right (land) flank by tanks, from the left (sea) flank by the fleet, from the top (air) flank...