Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They expected rescue Tuesday, when the Indianapolis would become overdue at Leyte. But all through the day, planes flew nearby without spotting them. Thirst, salt water and sun swelled their tongues and split their lips. Their eyes throbbed...
Last week General Olmstead's men were ready. First, planes flew over the prison camps to drop leaflets warning the Japs that the parachutists were coming on a purely humanitarian mission. Then the transports flew over, unloaded their supplies...
Rumor & Vigil. The U.S. replied to the Japs, and again the nation waited. Rumors flew. The radio tried hard to keep up: "This is a Reuter's report of a Domei broadcast picked up by the Chungking Radio...
...flown them in. A few hours later they came down on a U.S. Army airfield in Austria. Rumor said that Traitor Laval had vainly offered his German pilots one million francs if they would head for Portugal. U.S. officers promptly turned Laval over to the French, who flew him to Paris...
...Stay (U.S. Navy-Paramount) is a shattering and dreadful record of the work of Japan's suicide flyers. The U.S. fleet which stood off Okinawa not only came to stay, it had to stay. The 6,000 to 7,000 of Japan's youngest men who flew Japan's oldest planes were quite as inextricably committed; they were locked into the mortal vortex of the divine tempest-Kamikaze...