Word: flak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Iron Mike. On a raid over Germany a B-24 Liberator was so badly hit by flak that the crew bailed out. Then the empty, staggering bomber perked up, flew a straight and level course for 150 miles, finally crashed off the English coast barely ten miles from her home base...
...gear as it retracts, flattening like the feet of a bird in flight, and disclosing the countryside. Technicolor comes fully into its own when the Belle and the planes of her formation climb steadily over the North Sea, striating the sky with vapor trails, and when (over Germany) the flak begins to pop its thick corn. Shots which are merely powerful in black-&-white become overpoweringly real and immediate in Technicolor. To the layman the actual bombing, for all its excitement, is just an uncommunicative, tremendous tower of smudge. And the trip home, through fierce air fighting, lacks the fine...
...towns, and this time the Luftwaffe came up in force and fought. Toll for the attackers was 27 bombers and six fighters, but 61 Nazi planes were shot down. And at week's end a fleet of more than 1,000 R.A.F. bombers fought a grueling battle with flak and night-fighters over Berlin, paying with 73 bombers for the huge fires left spreading in the doomed Nazi capital...
...back from Berlin the Polish crew of the big R.A.F. bomber caught it hot & heavy. The flak was astonishingly accurate. The searchlights never let them go, the gunners on the ground seemed to have perfect range. Only occasional clouds, violent evasive action and luck saved them...
...over the target his luck ran out: a burst of flak enveloped his Fort, sent it diving out of formation...