Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...main roads; these were still being ripped by "the few" of Major General Chennault's air force. Instead, he wormed ahead on footpaths between the yellow-stubbled nee fields, on mule trails through the hills, and-most of all-on the rivers, by sampans which could hide in daylight along banks overhung by trees...
...about the naval gunfire here that broke the "brittle shell" and either killed the coastal defenders or scared them to death? How about the minesweeps clearing the way for the assault troops up to 200 yards offshore in broad daylight? How about the gigantic task of collecting all these "some 1,000 ships" divided into three distinct forces and bringing them to the right place at exactly the right moment? And how about the Admirals in charge of these Task Forces under Hewitt-Rear Admirals Frank J. Lowry, Bertram J. Rodgers, and Spencer Lewis...
Brigadier General La Verne ("Blondy") Saunders launched the Twentieth Bomber Command on the heaviest aerial assault yet staged from Asiatic bases. He threw his full striking power into a 24-hour assault; he challenged the defensive reserves of the Jap air force with the first daylight raid on the homeland-the kind of mission for which the Superfortress was designed...
...daylight blow, four planes were lost to enemy action; all the planes in the night raid returned to their bases. The Twentieth had paid heavily in men and material to ascertain what the Imperial Air Force could do to defend its homeland. But if this was the Jap's best, it was not good enough...
...late, Kluge, blinded by lack of air power, had learned what he was up against. In full daylight retreat, spread out on the roads, his troops had been chopped, torn, disorganized by an air assault that had no counterpart in all warfare...