Word: crashing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sickening to watch the Jap mortar shells crash into the men as they climbed. These huge explosive charges-"floating ash cans," we called them-would crash among the thin lines of marines, or among the boats bringing reinforcements to the beach, throwing sand, water and even pieces of human flesh 100 feet into the air. Supporting naval gunfire and planes with bombs managed to knock out some of the mortars, but the Japs continued throwing their deadly missiles all afternoon. By noon the assault battalions reported 20 to 25% fatalities...
...instrument was developed by a famed navigation expert, Colonel Thomas L. Thurlow, who was killed in an air crash last year, and by the Bendix Aviation Corp. Its chief use so far has been in B-29 Superfortresses and in carrier planes, which have found it very helpful in getting back to their ships...
...days after the crash the body of Oumansky was cremated in the same oven that had been used to cremate Leon Trotsky, murdered (by a GPU agent) in Mexico City four and a half years...
...latter killed in a fighter-plane crash in California
...their effortless achievement at once of superhuman force and grandeur and of jewel-like delicacy, might well make this film the envy of good poets and painters for the rest of time. Later on, over Truk and Kwajalein and the Marianas, these shots-plus some hair-raising ones of crash-landings on the carrier deck-heap one astonishment so thickly upon another that the eye and mind can hardly keep pace. For violent air action and for pure visual magnificence, The Fighting Lady is not likely ever to be beaten...