Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Japanese advanced the lawlessness behind the lines increased. Railroads were wrecked, cars were fired upon in the dark, and even in daylight several Chinese were murdered on the road. Gangs of dacoits, as many as four or five hundred, armed with cruel, butcher-knife-like dahs and with torches in their hands often went through towns completing the work of destruction begun by Japanese incendiary bombs. The Japanese, and the small but active group of Burmese that were their allies, literally and devastatingly burned their way through Burma...
Within the 400-mile (average) radius of pursuit, Britain is using Hurricanes fitted with bombs to hop nimbly through the Nazi anti-aircraft barrages by daylight and throw confusion and small-scale destruction into industrial and military establishments and their defenses...
Everywhere-and the R.A.F. was striking out in daylight sweeps as well as in night bombings all over western Europe-there was a singular lack of opposition. A year ago it was heralded as a feat if three R.A.F. flyers scooted over Occupied France, but last week they were over the Continent by the hundreds...
...Enough "Zeros?" If the U.S., in daylight, lost only nine of 60 planes - as the Japs once reported - something was seriously wrong with Japan's air defenses. If the U.S. raiders lost only two or three - as the Japs first reported - Japan has no air defenses to speak of. Whatever the true figure, Tokyo evidently had few fighters at home to shield herself...
...swept by day and swatted by night. Italy's faraway golden triangle - Turin, Milan, Genoa-was bombed nonstop from England. Augsburg in Bavaria, another distant target, was bombed daringly by day. The Ruhr got it two nights. Hamburg was pasted. But the real noise and numbers were the daylight sweeps along the French coast and the invasion ports-Lorient, Le Havre, St. Nazaire, Cherbourg, Dunkirk, Calais, Rouen, carried out mainly by Spitfire-protected Hurricanes, converted to carry light bombs and nicknamed Hurribombers. One day more than 400 planes went over; the next, 600 went...