Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doolittle later made the Jacksonville-San Diego flight in 21 hours, 19 minutes (it had never been done before under 24 hours). Still later, he broke many other records. Once, for American Airlines, he and Jo Doolittle flew a Lockheed transport through cloud, fog and snow from New York to San Diego in eleven hours, 59 minutes-just four minutes better than the previous transport record. "Damn poor piloting," said Doolittle, who had made the flight mainly on his instruments...
...sour, belated news that some of his men were captives of Japanese (TIME, Nov. 2) and that many of his planes had crashed after dropping their bombs did not cloud Jimmy Doolittle's fame. Nor did it tinge the devotion of the Tokyo flyers who returned with or followed him to the U.S. Last week, in Washington's Walter Reed Hospital, three of them eagerly scanned the news of Jimmy in Africa and wanted to be with him. They remembered that Doolittle, during the flight to Tokyo, roamed all over his plane, taking notes on likely improvements. They...
...days later the Commander of U.S. Air Forces in China sent his raiders over Hong Kong, plastering the docks, warehouses and power station of Britain's lost Crown Colony on the South China coast. In the succeeding week Hong Kong was raided twice again. Japan's White Cloud airdrome, near Canton was raided once...
Sweetman also showed the effects of one of the commercially sold extinguishers on the actual incendiary used in raids. When he added tar chips to the burning magnesium, a cloud of thick black smoke arose...
Bombers broke cloud over the Skagerrak and came in 100 feet above Oslo in the brilliant sunshine. R.A.F. bombardiers sighted the University building where, two years to a day after he became head of Norway's Nazis, Premier Vidkun Quisling was haranguing a Nasjonal Samling (Nazi) Party rally on "The New Order in Norway," pleading for an army of 5,000 Norwegians to fight with the Germans on the eastern front...