Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With these words of welcome a few admonitions and suggestions are called for. You new men will find Boston a very peculiar place. If you're the conservative or stay-at-home type, you might even call Boston "quaint." Boston is a place where civilization, faintly evident during the daylight hours, flares up for the few short twilight hours, and disappears promptly at 2400, Saturday night in particular...
...guess that the Luftwaffe had lost 301 fighters in two daylight air battles over Berlin last week, and it was no guess that when the U.S. bombers came back in force for a third attack within four days, the Luftwaffe planes did not come up to oppose them...
When we taxied out about 8:15 it was broad daylight. We circled up & up over the field until we were above the clouds. While we were getting into formation we could see hundreds of other Forts coming up at other places to make other formations. Berlin...
After a while time ceased to have much meaning; sometimes it was dark, some times daylight. But the fighting never really stopped. One night the Germans, trying to get behind the Americans in town, blundered into one of their own minefields. The doughboys heard explosions, then the screams of the wounded...
...lower stories, then to the basements. Whole squads disappeared beneath collapsing walls. The limits of the barrage froze something approximating a battle line running through the town, with a No-Man's Land sometimes only ten yards wide. Any soldier who stepped into that strip in daylight was a dead...