Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...yellow balls of German tracers dropped in from three sides. The red balls of oar machine guns grew less & less, seemingly overwhelmed. We marched on, knowing that we had not surprised the enemy. We would have to fight for the hills in daylight...
Heavy bombers of the U.S. Eighth Air Force celebrated Bastille Day with smashing daylight raids on German air installations at Villacoublay, Amiens and famed Le Bourget airport (where Lindbergh landed) near Paris. TIME Correspondent William Walton covered the Le Bourget raid from the transparent nose of the Flying Fortress Georgia Peach, jammed in with Navigator B. L. Otto ("Blotto") and Bombardier Johnny Ozier. His report follows...
Introduction to Gela. Daylight came. Up & down the beaches officers had marshaled their men, found lost companies, established contacts with other units on their flanks. With daylight came the first German planes-20 of them in one attack, veering from the beaches toward the ships...
...Thereby they scored first in a violent battle of propaganda that was certain to develop. The world-particularly the Catholic world inside and outside the Axis fortress -was told how Allied airmen carefully trained for this mission, how they studied huge maps, absorbed repeated instructions, took unusual risks in daylight, all to avoid as far as possible the damaging of religious and cultural buildings. Many of the airmen-as many as possible-were Catholics and aboard their planes were seven U.S. and British correspondents to vouch for the meticulous care with which the bombs were aimed...
...stern. It went down at once, then popped up, hopelessly out of control. Once more it sank at a steep angle, then resurfaced. The crew poured out of the crippled vessel; 24 were taken prisoner. The next engagement of the carrier lasted 14 hours, from dusk to daylight. Twice again the escort carrier's planes struck. In the last attack four TBFs and two Wildcat fighters swooped in on the U-boat. The last of their depth bombs were direct hits on the deck; only 17 crew members survived...