Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Light of the Moon. They fought off frenzied Jap counterattacks through the daylight hours. By night they grimly fought off the animal-like enemy's infiltrating tactics. Wrote Corporal Bill Alcine, Army correspondent...
More than 2,000 U.S.A.A.F. bombers and fighters, the greatest strike the U.S. has launched, swept in bright daylight across the Channel, hit Leipzig again, hit Oschersleben, hit Gotha, hit Bernburg, hit Brunswick, hit Halberstadt, hit Tutow, hit Posen. It was a big, bewildering show...
Next day a fleet of 1,100 heavy bombers attacked the great naval base of Wilhelmshaven by daylight, plastered it with more than 1,600 tons of bombs. The attackers had to struggle through snow, rain and high winds to reach the target. Antiaircraft fire was heavy but Nazi fighter opposition was puny; only four U.S. heavy bombers were lost on the raid...
Only a few have heavier charges. After planting the model mines, each group turns to on the other's field, ferrets out and digs up what it finds, in the dark as well as in daylight...
...SAILOR, TAKE WARNING-Kelley Roos -Dodd, Mead & Co. ($2). The middle-aged yacht enthusiast was stabbed in broad daylight on a knoll overlooking a Central Park lake, in full view of Jeff Troy and his wife, who trail an exceptionally well-concealed killer through exciting, amusing situations. Good detecting, pleasant people and good...