Word: flew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this were not enough, an air raid alarm went off at 2 o'clock and German planes flew overhead. We were trapped helplessly on the boat. Fortunately some nearby English planes drove off the German raiders, but the incident certainly gave us a few disquieting moments...
Britain. Last week in the House of Commons Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood laboriously reviewed the war record of the Royal Air Force to date: it flew 1,000,000 miles of reconnaissance and patrol, escorted 100 convoys, sighted submarines on 72 occasions, attacked 34 times, made 1,000-mile flights at high altitudes. In cold figures such as Sir Kingsley cited, the R. A. F. last week had about 6,000 trained pilots, about 3,000 first-line planes. But it had, as well, spirit, ingenuity, determination, and a new plan...
Drunk with the new wine, success, the Chinese tried another daring thrust. In broad daylight eight bombers flew 450 miles from Chungking to Hankow, where they bombed the Japanese air base. They claimed to have destroyed 50 out of 180 Japanese planes, to have returned intact. Japanese admitted that bombs had hit stores of gasoline at their air base, "causing explosions that rocked the city...
Last week war in Poland had its official end as Adolf Hitler flew to Warsaw. He arrived at the city, left it thoughtful. For what Adolf Hitler saw as he drove into town was a city which he, artist by ambition, architect of a Chancellery and an eagle's nest, had designed-a city of charred wrecks, broken windows, gutted streets, tram rails bent into tortured question marks...
...bunker ship to be crowded with captured crews and finally sent to Germany. A fantastic series of sinkings, captures, cripplings began. What made them particularly fantastic was the gallantry, as well as the ingenuity, of Captain Miiller. He used tricks to attract the enemy, but in battle he proudly flew his own flag. Sometimes he had five or six boats gathered around him in various stages of sinking. He was so ubiquitous that many people seriously believed that the Germans named several cruisers Emden. He sent to the bottom more than 74,000 tons of shipping without killing...