Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth Air Force, badly stung by losses to German rocket-bearing planes, tried new tactics which worked well. Planes were accompanied to their targets by long-range fighters, and mass attacks were meshed with large-scale feints and supplementary bombings. Subsequent bomber losses on three big successive daylight raids...
...ridiculed, Wellington made his first speech in two years: "They were not objects of contempt to the enemies of their country." In his camps in India he read constantly, kept on the move, ate frugally, drank little.* His officers, up at 4:30, drank a cup of tea before daylight, breakfasted in their overcoats on a table before Wellington's tent, and then set out on the day's march, the Duke riding on the dusty flank...
...Eighth's Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker not been certain the Luftwaffe was being pushed inland, he never would have tried an eight- to ten-hour daylight raid over Germany...
Reconnaissance studies showed that four R.A.F. night raids, two U.S. daylight raids in July and August wrecked about nine sq. mi. (or 77%) of Hamburg, left that port a dead city...
...some 1,800 U.S. and British planes had flown over France. Eighth Air Force planes alone had flown more than 1,000 daylight sorties (individual missions). The Allies had lost ten planes; the Germans had lost 16 and would have lost many more if they had dared to, or been able to, accept the challenge...