Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before he joined the air corps two years ago, Dicks Bong helped his father with oat and potato crops at Poplar, Wis. (pop. 462). His first combat was in the Buna battle of Dec. 27, when he twice rang the bell with a Zero and a dive-bomber. During the smashing of the Lae convoy in early January he nailed three Zeros. He got another in the Bismarck Sea battle...
...eleven fights, only once has he been scared. When the Japs raided Oro Bay last March, Dicks Bong made a pass at a dive-bomber and then realized a Zero had tagged on to him. He headed out to sea to get clear and flip around and meet the Jap head on. "Imagine my surprise when there were nine Zeros instead of one. But it was too late for anything else, so I tore right into them." Bong...
...guard at the Vatican. And how he strained to imagine that scene! He says he had a queer sensation that night seven years ago when he had looked up at the beautiful Rome in his sister's face-and now he was looking down on it from a bomber...
Commenting on the Paramoshiri raid, the commander of the U.S. bomber groups in China, Colonel Eugene Beebe, said "They ain't seen nothing...
When he leaves railways, he often discovers other strange features of the English landscape. A farmyard contains a tall tower leaning well to the right (". . . and my Italian prisoners put up the silo"). An enormous bomber roars low over a tiny cottage which, luckily, just fits between the bomber's mighty wheels ("I'm afraid we shall have to leave building the new wing until after the war"). Emett's capacity to embroider a theme with variations applies not only to railways but also to such other redoubtable English features as ear trumpets, bath chairs, lantern-slide...