Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...north, the latitude of Hamburg, Bremen and other north German targets, June nights provide the shortest hours of protective darkness, the fewest nights when cloud conditions are suitable (i.e., neither perfectly clear nor thickly blanketed). In fact, if weather and clock were allowed to control air operations from Britain, there could never be a second air front in Europe. Now the R.A.F. is shaking off the shackles, risking more in order to achieve more...
...other targets. Other squadrons simultaneously attacked Flensburg, another U-boat spawning ground at the Danish-German frontier. Unofficial statements that three bombers missing from the operation constituted a loss of less than 5% was indication that something over 60 bombers took part in the attack, aided by a cloud cover over the target areas...
...came cautiously worded hints that Field Marshal Rommel's thrust into Egypt, if it went far enough, might meet an active fifth column of disgruntled natives. Singapore, Burma, India and Pearl Harbor have been revealing examples of what might happen. Censorship and a hope-for-the-best attitude cloud the picture in Egypt...
...line between Shanghai and the south. But the Jap had taken the last of three fine airfields prepared by the Chinese in Chekiang and Kiangsi Provinces against the day when the Americans would come with bombers. Now in Chungking, China's leaders looked to Burma and the clammy cloud of the monsoon...
Stilwell, showing no signs of wear except gradually thinning cheeks, led the untrained party of civilians and soldiers through the elephant trails and teakwood forests and jungles of northern Burma, across the Chindwin River over a 7,000-ft. pass into a cloud-enveloped land of head-hunting tribesmen to final safety in India, only a few days' march ahead of the Japanese, without losing a single member of the party...