Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eagle Squadron drew its first blood last week. In a daylight sweep over German-occupied French territory, these U.S. fliers who had volunteered into the R.A.F. had been ordered to cling to the wings of a bomber squadron, and not run jauntily off for dogfights...
...daylight, in the Strand, "people drifted by with a half-dazed, half-sleepy expression on their faces, as if they had forgotten something but couldn't remember what it was. Something uneasy, abnormal in this leisure, like . . . like a watch running down...
...British bombers and fighters this was the ninth successive daylight sweep over northern France. Since the sweeps started early in June, the British had shot down 168 German planes while losing only 68 of their own. Besides, they had attacked many airfields, power stations, railways, bridges. This day was as fair as a day in June can be, and so the sky-sweeps expected to run into plenty of fight. But when they flew back to their bases, they had to confess that for the first time during the sweeps they had not shot down a single "schmitter...
This time the Second used infantry to better advantage, brought quick decision to the exercise, which had the Fifth fighting a delaying action against overwhelming odds. Starting at daylight, the tankers plunged down on the Fifth from all points of the compass, before noon had shattered resistance and captured the Fifth's C.O., Brigadier General Cortlandt Parker...
With the Luftwaffe waffing in Russia, the R.A.F. last week had such a good time that the British began to talk of the Battle from Britain. For eight days in succession groups of as many as 150 planes crossed the Channel for the biggest daylight offensives in their history. The British claimed 117 German planes, admitted losing...