Word: flak
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...transport pilots and correspondents flying as observers it seemed that the operation was moving at the unreal pace of a speeded-up movie. Within 30 seconds the drop had begun, German flak opened up, colored equipment parachutes dotted the ground, a white parachute was hung up in a tree, a big Hamilcar (British) glider lay on its back, broken and burning...
...Germans had little with which to counter, except their greatly increased flak concentrations-now more a menace than the Luftwaffe. Over battered Berlin, against the U.S. 1,300-bomber raid, the Germans sent up the biggest flak barrage Eighth Air Force men had ever seen, along with the biggest show of buzzing, jet-propelled fighters. Their great speed swirled them through bomber formations, but U.S. gunners got some of them. The cost: 25 bombers, five fighters...
...Boat & Bridge. At 2:45 a.m. the earth leaped to the thunder of thousands of guns. There were 240-mm monsters, Long Toms. 1055, 755. The guns of tanks and tank destroyers, flak artillery and captured German rockets joined the barrage. A quarter-million shells fell on the German positions. But some Germans lived to answer with mortars and artillery zeroed in on the river crossings...
...Eighth Air Force-and the first time he saw Paris he was "shaking like an aspen" in the nose of the Flying Fortress Georgia Peach in the celebrated Bastille Day bombing. "Ahead of us Focke-Wulfs and Messerschmitts dived and rolled, spitting lead, and bursting flak made black puffballs all around...
...watching the rhythmic rise & fall of the little flow indicator ball in the oxygen control box (most flying was done at heights requiring masks), took pulses and armpit temperatures, watched for trembling, pallor, changes in pupil size. In all, he observed 16 different men during the ordeal by flak. Only three showed no fright reaction...