Word: flak
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...early night was carpeted with clouds. Beneath, within and over them, flak burst in fitful fire. It was bitter cold. The big, dark planes were sheathed in frost; the men inside them huddled freezing over instruments and guns. The sky was crowded with the ghostly bombers, growling toward Berlin...
...cost 60. Percentage of casualties had gone up to over 10%. No matter how precious the targets, the flyers and the fleets could not stand such losses. The Germans had come up with new rocket-bearing fighters which could lurk outside the range of U.S. .50-caliber machine guns. Flak was getting thicker...
...range, well beyond the effective range of the bomber's heavy machine guns. Peaslee added: "For the first 200 yards the rockets left a trail of smoke and appeared to be gaining momentum. When they exploded, they were twice as big as any flak, and I've seen plenty of flak...
...Flak got five R.A.F. Wellingtons over Berlin the night of Nov. 14, three years ago, and a pilot parachuted into the Teltow Canal near Tempelhof Airport. Middle-aged civilian wardens fished him out, escorted him to a police station. The police gave him hot Ersatzkaffee. The prisoner made a face and everyone laughed...
...three enemy fighters. A Princeton sophomore when he joined the Army Air Forces last year, the handsome, taciturn pilot flew on his first mission eight weeks ago, joined the first U.S. shuttle raid on Germany, flew safely to Africa over 300 miles of hot enemy territory with 75 flak holes in his ship and his rudder control shot away...