Word: defenders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...continent. ..." The Japs had already solved the problem presented by "the wide span of area between Japan and America." In fact, said the revised version, if the Americans knew what was good for them they would stop sending their battle planes to the Pacific and Asia, and prepare to "defend their own country against a possible menace of Axis and Japanese airmen...
...bombers-nearly 10% of the raiding force. The R.A.F. is pleased when losses run as low as 3% to 5%, as they recently have. It begins to worry when losses approach 10%, the officially accepted dividing line between profitable and wasteful operations. At points which the Germans chose to defend strongly, they demonstrated last week that their ack-ack and fighter protection was sufficient to cause the R.A.F. real concern...
This is not the hour to avoid real issues. If the psuedo-crusaders are going to take their task seriously they will have to attack inflation, and not merely defend themselves against...
...citizens paid little attention to the whole affair. There were good reasons: 1) no big-time officials were involved; the highest ranking wrongdoer found was a plant metallurgist; 2) U.S. Steel's president, smart, suave Benjamin F. Fairless, made no attempt to defend his company, readily admitted "very, very poor management," promised that all involved "will have to walk the plank...
Thus did the U.S. Army find the Japanese at work building an air strip in the Aleutians. Until recently the Japanese had depended on floatplane Zeros. Now they were apparently trying to bring in their best fighters, to defend-or perhaps offend -against the growing air strength of the U.S. in the Aleutians...