Word: cluster
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had lost the initiative long ago; now to get at Leyte Gulf and its cluster of soft-shelled U.S. transports, their war ships must pass through narrow waters...
...Navy calls it the greatest sea fighter in the world. The Japs respect it above all other planes. Wherever the Hellcats have roved in the skies above the Pacific, they have conquered. At Guam, Ensign W. B. ("Spider") Webb nosed his Hellcat into a cluster of Jap dive bombers, joined them in their landing circle, leisurely shot down six. In the first attack on the Bonin Islands in June, Lieut. L. G. ("Barney") Barnard shot down two Jap planes in 25 seconds, sent three more spinning out of the air within 25 minutes...
South of Caen, a Canadian unit wading through wheat fields fought its way into a cluster of apple orchards...
...Superfortresses droned over the cluster of factories in their first daylight operation, flames from the bombed plants billowed up to 6,000 feet, smoke to 26,000. But the B-29s were above these, above the ack-ack, and above the effective fighting ceiling of Jap Zeroes. The first high-level operation of the kind for which B-29s were designed (as distinct from medium-altitude night bombing such as the two previous attacks on Yawata and Sasebo) was a success. Only two planes were lost. Total for three raids...
...regimental command post at the very top of the Chinese positions. From the loopholes you could see out over the field of battle. The nearest hill recaptured was a wooded one and Chinese troops were already sheltered there. But three Jap hills beyond were the highest of the cluster and on these the Japs had concentrated their guns and men. Two white farmhouses in the slopes of the hills held invisible Japs, and Chinese guns were trying to reach them unsuccessfully. Mortars of the Chinese belched from behind us, but nothing happened...