Word: flak
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...last week 1,250 U.S. heavies, escorted by 1,000 fighters, bombed four synthetic oil plants in the Leipzig area. Only a dozen German fighters were seen, and four of these were shot down; but the flak was the thickest and deadliest that U.S. crews had ever encountered. "Flak burst in a mass," said one radioman, "a forest of it so dense that we could only get occasional glimpses of the formations ahead of us. It was a solid wall at the target...
...favorite hunting ground was the Truk lagoon, where he habitually flew through a storm of flak at 50 ft. in order to bomb and strafe Jap ships...
...transports, loaded to their stripped ribs with paratroopers and light weapons. The scene was repeated at a score of fields. The big bombers - 1,000 of them - were already out, plastering German airfields in The Netherlands and beyond. The trim fighters -hundreds of them - were out diving against flak towers and gun sites...
Color Flutters. The sky trains sped past the inundation to the bright green of the gentle countryside around Tilburg and Eindhoven. The planes flew low, close to 500 feet through patches of flak. Then suddenly they spilled their men, cut off their gliders. Soon against the green in the grey day fluttered hundreds of white, yel low, red, blue, brown parachutes. In a matter of minutes, Brereton saw his army in action, forming two columns along a paved road, advancing on a town, their shells raising dust puffs, finally marching...
...Polish flight of the Balkan Air Force. Though they had had months of experience in dropping arms to partisans in enemy-held territory, this job made the airmen blanch. It meant flying 900 miles each way over hostile territory; part over Czechoslovakia, through some of the heaviest flak in Europe. Fighter cover was impossible and all the way back Nazi night fighters would lie in wait for them. Over Warsaw, they had to turn southwest to a certain bridge over the Vistula, fly so many blocks, and make their drops on a particular side of a given street...