Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glimpse of the bomb damage wrought on stately Canterbury Cathedral-the day before the Nazis bombed the historic town in the heaviest daylight raid on England in two years...
...Hersey reached Guadalcanal it was strafed by Jap Zeros. The day before he left he watched the Marines shoot down eight of 27 Jap bombers trying to knock out our airfield-and he took off the day the Jap cruisers first ventured inshore to shell the American beachhead by daylight...
...British gave the Italians no rest. On three successive nights they made the 1,400-mile round trip to Italy's industrial north. They hammered again at battered Genoa. They pounded Turin, home of the royal arsenal. They made a daylight raid at Milan, which they visited again at night, dropping more bombs into the widespread fires. It was the heaviest, and most businesslike, aerial plastering Italy had got since the war began, and it would probably continue. British losses in the three days: eleven planes...
...little consolation to the Italians to know that they had momentarily diverted some of the R.A.F.'s biggest night bombers from attacks on Germany. Western Europe caught it anyhow: from fast Mosquitoes that flew in daylight, unescorted, over northwest Germany; from Mustang fighters that machine-gunned an army camp; from Spitfires that strafed canal barges and locomotives; from U.S. Flying Fortresses that made their longest excursion to pound the Nazi submarine base in Lorient, France...
Closer & Closer. Early in the morning of Oct. 15 the Jap swept past little Savo Island, was able to make daylight landings for the first time on the northwest tip of Guadalcanal, only 15 miles from the Marines' toehold. He paid heavily. Haggard American flyers hit a battleship, fired three transports that still burned late that afternoon. But the Jap still came. He lost 17 more planes in one attack on Henderson Field. At week's end the Jap landed artillery and brought it close enough to shell U.S. positions, now under attack from land...