Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...every airman knows, it is also sometimes bound to get cloudy-a fact that has saved and cost many combat flyers' lives. Because clouds are one of the important military concerns of World War II,* scientists have recently taken to more intensive cloud-gazing. Last week an unusually lucid explanation of the function of clouds in war was presented by an old cloud man, William J. Humphreys (retired) of the U.S. Weather Bureau, in a new book, Fog, Clouds and Aviation (Williams & Wilkins...
What Are They? Scientists know surprisingly little about clouds, which were not even named or classified until 1803 (by an English druggist named Luke Howard). They know how clouds and fogs (clouds on the ground) are formed-by the cooling of humid air, which condenses water vapor on particles of dust, pollen or soot in the air. They also know what a cloud or fog is made of-water droplets (or ice crystals) so small that an 1,800-cu. ft. block of dense fog contains only one-seventh of a glass of water. But many questions, such as what...
...planes had just dive-bombed the jutting rock of Troina where it stuck up like an island amid the circling mountain peaks. Black smoke curled upward in columns, merging into one big black cloud beneath which Troina disappeared like Camelot fading into the mists. We drove our jeep around a cliff to where an ambulance had halted beneath a ledge. Beyond that no car could advance, for the road was mined. By the ambulance lay a soldier who looked up at us with the tender, inquiring gaze the eyes of wounded men often seem to wear. A first...
...Oran, where the 1st landed and met some of the hardest fighting of the early campaign in North Africa, Allen demonstrated the quality which had sometimes been confused with casual impetuosity. The French held a strong position at St. Cloud, a suburb of Oran. Rather than lose men in frontal assault, Allen, on a spur-of-the-moment decision, sent two units around the town, into Oran. As his men told it later, it sounded obvious and easy, but they knew it was the act of a resourceful and flexible commander...
...Georgia Peach's guns were never silent, vibrating like riveters; empty brass cartridges piled up on the floor of the nose. Suddenly against a white cloud bank far ahead appeared dark specks. "I think the Spits are coming back," said intercom. "Be careful, though, boys." Spitfires streaked toward us, lipped into the Germans, then came back, darting protectively across our tail and either wing...