Word: feint
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Feint in the Night. While still under enemy observation, Oldendorf swept on to the north, past the entrance to Lingayen Gulf. Perhaps the Japs would think he was going to Vigan. But in the night he turned back. The sea approaches to Lingayen Gulf had been scantily mined. With little difficulty, his ships reached their bombardment runs and opened fire with everything from 5-inch to 16-inch guns. Jap shore batteries on Santiago Island answered briefly and were soon put out of action. Jap aircraft attacked, again for three hours...
When the protecting rain clouds parted, the force made a feint toward the open sea, in the hope of throwing the Japanese off the trail if any Japs were looking. Then the task force wheeled and squeezed through Surigao Strait, steaming over the drowned hulks of Jap warships sunk in the great October battle...
...next day one of his task groups sent its planes against Aparri in northern Luzon, a Jap landing point in the days of defeat in December 1941. It was a feint as well as a destructive foray. The following day, his main body struck Formosa, stoutest of the Japanese bases outside the homeland...
Left, Right, Left. Still Kesselring could not be sure that this was anything more than a feint to cover an attack in the center or the west. He sat tight. Reports that the Germans were pulling out of Italy proved misleading and premature...
...Friday the U.S. Eighth Air Force flicked a feint at Berlin with P-38 Lightning fighters. Next day the Eighth threw a half-punch. Heavy bombers raided targets in eastern Germany and one formation of Fortresses dropped bombs on the Berlin district, for the first U.S. raid on the battered capital of the Reich...