Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British had botched the job. The Japanese, said Colonel H. J. Cedille, had armed the natives, incited them to riot and in some cases had joined them, posing as Annamites. General Gracey, dismayed by the whole business, talked tough to the Jap commander, Field Marshal Count Juichi Terauchi, then flew down to Singapore with Colonel Cedille, senior French officer at Saigon, for a worried conference with Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten. But not until strong French forces arrived (under General Jacques Leclerc and Admiral Georges Thierry d'Ar-genlieu) would Terauchi's men be disarmed...
Bernt Balchen, 45, beefy, blue-eyed, Norwegian-born pilot who flew Admiral Byrd over the South Pole in 1929 and has logged a record mileage over polar regions, received the Legion of Merit for his aid, last year, in evacuating 2,000 Norwegians from Sweden by air, and for parachuting supplies and espionage agents to the European underground...
...Lockheed's Burbank, Calif, plant until late in 1942, and it was for the Army. The Army liked it so well that it ordered 270 more. But Hughes and Frye had a chance to test the bird they had hatched. In the spring of 1944 they flew a Constellation across the continent in six hours, 58 minutes; another flew from New York to Paris in 14 hours, twelve minutes for the Army's Air Transport Command...
...There were leis for everybody-some made of ginger flowers, some of paper. Planes flew overhead. Bands played Aloha Oe. WAVEs kissed sailors. A hula dancer performed on the flight deck. The Saratoga, biggest U.S. aircraft carrier left in World War II was sailing for home...
When Neville Chamberlain flew to Berchtesgaden to placate Adolf Hitler in September 1938, he upset the plans of top-ranking German officers. They were getting ready to arrest Hitler...