Word: bursting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pilot pointed his failing plane at the carrier's deck, glided in for a crash landing. Men on the deck could see the bomber's crew, see that all but the pilot were dead. A gunner sent a burst into the bomber. It fell away, clipped one of the carrier planes, crashed into...
...Japanese bomb burst on Sumatra this week. It dropped at the one point on the long, narrow island where, by winning fast, the Jap could: 1) seize a major source of Indies oil; 2) set himself for his final drive at Java...
...dive-bombers turned up. They could be identified by the upcurve of their wings and their nonretractable landing gears. The next minute two P-40s came plummeting out of the clouds and the show was on. The Japs broke formation. One of them was hit squarely with a burst from a P-40. It flared up like a gasoline-soaked rag, plunged earthwards, crashed in its own bombs. The two other dive-bombers jettisoned their loads and streaked away. One of them was smoking when he turned. The P-40 on his tail gave it to him again and finished...
Just when Franklin Roosevelt's silence (he had canceled two press conferences, cut a third to three minutes) was beginning to remind newsmen of the sinister quiet of Old Man River, rolling with many an audible swish and chuckle along the levee, he burst his banks. He revealed one important accomplishment of Winston Churchill's visit...
...night and sank a 5,000-ton Jap ship, got away clean. A week later Bulkeley returned, this time in a torpedo boat commanded by Ensign George Cox, to knock off another 5,000-tonner. Meanwhile more than 200 miles north of Manila a band of Philippine guerrillas burst from the hills and slashed at a Jap airdrome at Tuguegarao on Northern Luzon. They reported (presumably by radio to Corregidor) that they had killed no Japs, routed 300 more...