Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tail gunner thought that he counted 106 German planes in two hours; half a dozen often bored in at a single bomber. Some of the Germans did insolent, casual "slow rolls" as they came in, wheeling their planes wing over wing and then straightening out to fire. Their daring and determination cost them dearly. The bombers (each carrying a tremendous wallop in thirteen .50-caliber machine guns) flew in close formation, which caught the Germans in murderous crossfire. The bomber crews claimed 44 German fighters certainly destroyed (six crashed. 23 fell in flames, 14 disintegrated...
...means of paint, dyed fabrics, and temporary wood construction the camouflagers are even able to deceive the casual observer of their miniature defense centers. The students, by looking at the models through special optical instruments, can determine just what is seen from an enemy bomber as it flies over at various altitudes...
...difficult but I wish you would give space to this effort of mine. Thursday's leading article on the draft gives the impression, to the casual reader, that I made definitely certain statements that I actually made tentatively. The article is in the main all right, but the head-lining is regrettable. People are puzzled enough now without throwing big scareheads at them, especially scareheads that give my guesses an importance they by no means merit...
...facts of many of the engagements. It was on this "inside dope" that he based one of the two points of his speech. The essence of this complaint was that accounts of U. S. disasters in the Pacific have been "twisted and played down" until they appear to the casual reader to have been actual victories. It has been previously observed by several sources, however, that the delay in making known some of the sinkins of American ships was unnecessarily drawn out. In this respect Maas was merely intensifying a point that has become increasingly obvious to careful news followers...
...picked up a copy of Variety last month and got a surprise. They learned that their sponsor (Anacin Tablets) would move them this week from the Blue Network to CBS. To any other radio headliners such a surprise would have been unbelievable, but not for them. For the casual Aces, who, for twelve years, have led merry, muddled fictional lives as The Easy Aces, it was quite natural...