Word: flak
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...watched from the bridge of a transport, one Hellcat, strafing from 700 feet, caught a burst of flak. The plane burst into flame and plummeted into the water. The fire was extin uished as quickly as"'the life of the pilot...
...fire over the target was "moderate to intense." There was "some resistance" from enemy fighters. The number of planes in the attack was left blank; a communique said only a "sizable task force of B-29s." The cost of the attack was four aircraft: one knocked down by enemy flak over the target; one missing; two lost by accidents...
...ship was gently pitching when we made the landfall on Japan. We hooked on our flak suits, adjusted our helmets and got into position for the bomb-run. Pilot Root increased the tempo of his gum-chewing. The copilot settled himself solidly in his seat, the engineer edged forward, his eyes glued to the instruments. The navigator, Lieut. James Stanley, checked and rechecked our position...
...London Home Secretary Herbert S. Morrison told the House of Commons that countermeasures were being taken against the robots and that no exaggerated importance would be attached to them. Visible countermeasures: 1) a heavy flak barrage to explode the bombs in air; 2) more heavy and concentrated bombing against the Pas-de-Calais district; 3) Spitfire patrols which shoot many of Goebbels' gismos into the Channel...
...ship is just sounding the warning [siren screech] and now flak is coming up in the sky with streamers from the warships behind us. ... Now the darkness has come on us. These planes you hear overhead are the motors of the Nazis coming and going in the cloudy sky. . . . [Deep boom']. . . . That was a bomb hit. Another one! Fire bursts and the flak and streamers going out in a diagonal slant (loud crash of ack-ack) right over our head. . . . Flares are coming down now. You can hear the machine gunning. . . . Here's heavy ack-ack now [loud firing...