Word: droning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chaplains led another song: Onward, Christian Soldiers. The President and the Prime Minister sang lustily. But their voices were drowned in the drone of the patrol planes overhead...
Bright & early next morning Corfiotes heard the familiar drone of planes, saw a squadron of 100 circling over the skeletons of their gutted Byzantine churches and the grey bulk of the old Venetian fortress. To greet its captors, the city broke out a swastika flag. Then a seaplane landed and out stepped ten Italian officers, two Italian journalists. While other planes wheeled menacingly overhead, they came ashore, claimed the island for Italy...
...Hitler's forces crossed the Danube by pontoon, ferry and train. The occupation was advertised to the Bulgarian public, thousands of whom are violently anti-Nazi and pro-Russian, by squadrons of Nazi bombers and fighters roaring low over Sofia's roofs. Except for their ear-splitting drone the city was quiet, and along the sunny boulevards many shopkeepers unfurled the swastika. As the Nazi columns rolled into his capital, Boris of Bulgaria remained immured in his yellow palace and thought nervous thoughts. As the shrewder Balkan politicos remarked, it was all a foregone conclusion...
Last autumn an unidentified bomber roared over County Wexford in neutral Eire, suddenly dumped its bombs, killed three young girls. Later Germany admitted that part of its Luftwaffe might have lost its way. Since then the drone of unidentified planes has frequently troubled...
Then the Finns heard the drone of Russian bombers rising from their bases behind the Soviet lines. In close formation they flew high over the Finnish lines and dropped their loads. At the same time long rows of tanks moved forward...