Word: dogfighter
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...north, but any rosy dreams of New Year's Eve parties in Manila had gone glimmering. MacArthur's top men had not expected anything easy to begin with-but it seemed improbable that they had expected to go into December involved in any such uninspired dogfight on Leyte...
...Partisan war strategy. It is a mass march across trackless rocks and forests, usually at night. The idea is to break through the German encirclement or to get, by intricate maneuvering, behind the pursuing German columns and pursue them in turn. It is like a slow-motion air dogfight, performed on the ground...
Parachuting down from a dogfight and head-on crash in the Guadalcanal sector, Lieut. Henry E. Matson opened his eyes and said: "Safe at last." Then...
Cause without Cure. At the bottom of this bitter dogfight were three basic factors: 1) Jesse Jones's great urge to hold on to his vast powers, 2) the never-settled, equivocal division of authority between Jones and Wallace, 3) the inevitable conflict over business method between banker-minded Jesse Jones and war-worried Henry Wallace...
...There I was right on the fifty-yard line of the darndest dogfight you ever saw. Zeros and American planes were thicker than flies at suppertime. They were all shooting - seemed to be shooting at me. My burns weren't hurting much, but I was pretty sure they would after a while, so I pulled out my first-aid kit and had myself a shot of morphine. I worked my way down out of the dogfights and was ready to say 'safe at last' again, when three Zeros came down...