Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...during a raid on the Nazi U-boat pens at St.-Nazaire, his bomber. Fortress 649, was badly hit and burst into flame. The fire sweeping the fuselage drove the radio operator and both waist gunners to "bail out. Emerging from his turret, Snuffy cast aside his own parachute, tackled the fire with extinguishers and water bottles. When he had used them up, he beat out the last flames with his hands. Meantime, he had contrived to man both waist guns in turn, helped to beat off harrying Focke-Wulfs and given first aid to the wounded tail gunner...
...Archimedes who rigged reflectors to focus the sun's rays on enemy ships in the harbor, causing them to burst into flames...
...Marauder) called Hell's Belle was on the run to its target when a burst of flak struck the plane. The bombardier was hit. A staff sergeant, serving both as radio operator and waist gunner, had his right leg nearly severed. The pilot shouted to the bombardier to forget the bombs, but he leaned over, dripping blood on his bombsight. and let them go. An Me-109 approached. The wounded sergeant dragged himself to his gun, shot down the Messerschmitt, then picked up a camera and photographed the crash. Two other gunners gave him a shot of morphine...
Over Sicily the American B-25 bombers dropped their greetings, were promptly jumped by 20 Nazi Messerschmitts and Focke-Wulfs. Down to the bombers' aid dived an escort of P-40 Warhawks. First Lieut. Charles Hall turned neatly inside two Focke-Wulfs, slapped a burst of tracers into the second plane, followed it down, saw it crash in a towering cloud of dust. Back at his base, Lieut. Hall received special congratulations from General Dwight D. Eisenhower. His Focke-Wulf was the first enemy plane to be shot down by the Negro fighter squadron commanded by Lieut. Colonel Benjamin...
...Last week there were six medium-sized cargo vessels in Macassar Harbor and a cruiser for protection. Suddenly the sky was darkened by a flock of fat-bellied Liberators, and a rain of explosives-incendiaries to one-ton bombs-fell on town and harbor. The Wilhelmina and Juliana docks burst into flame. A 2,000-pounder cracked the cruiser squarely and billowing smoke obscured it. A cargo ship...