Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long Reach. But the new Mustang's greatest single contribution to the mounting air battle over Europe is its long range; it has whittled a healthy slice out of the danger zone in which daylight bombers must fly without fighter escort to hit distant enemy targets. The exact range is secret, but 1,000 miles might not be a bad layman's guess; on its showing last week, the Mustang might have enough range to fly escort to Berlin...
...Italians had a workable jet aircraft three years ago, flew it over Milan by daylight and completed one cross-country flight from Milan to Rome; the Germans were reported working on a similar plane. Nothing more has been heard of either...
...General Ira C. Eaker, commander of the U.S. Eighth Air Force, down to the Mediterranean to lead all Allied air operations in that theater, and bring Major General James H. Doolittle up as chief of the Eighth. Eaker, a crack officer with an unparalleled grasp of the problems of daylight precision bombing, had fought long and successfully for that American theory of air attack. Few of his friends could doubt that he must be deeply disappointed at departing now, just when he had built his air force to the point of wrecking key German industries, with billiards-shark precision...
...India. They left their guns behind and moved like a scythe through the village with their curved steel kukris drawn. They came out with only one pris oner, a German officer. They had never seen a German officer and wanted to save him for a better view in the daylight...
...snow or rain. Tonight not so cold. No precipitation.' Who asked them if there would be snow or rain? Who asked about precipitation? No one. They have begun anticipating. . . . Soon they will be sending stories out saying that there will be no sun in Hoboken, or no daylight in Canarsie...