Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last flight was on Jan. 29, when, as Vice President, he flew to Kansas City for Boss Tom Pendergast's funeral...
This week the Army cleared the story of the B-29 Uncle Tom's Cabin, which flew to Tokyo on Dec. 27, and never returned. Other Superforts saw the Cabin, six miles above the target, rammed and ripped wide-open by a Jap fighter. Other Japs pressed in for the kill, but the staggering bomber fought them off and righted itself 3,000 feet below the formation, only to be crashed by another fighter. The Cabin pulled out again at 5,000 with one machine gun still firing; a third Jap suicide rammer sent it plummeting into Tokyo...
Letters home from Russian soldiers told of Germans living in cellars and dugouts without light, food or water, and begging from the Red Army. People's Commissar of Foreign Trade Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan flew to Berlin and Dresden, reported these remedies last week...
Norway, where the Germans could have made it hard, was easy. German officers bearing suitcases full of maps flew to Scotland, spread their deployment secrets before the British and arranged to surrender 300,000 troops...
...veteran reporter (who saw Poland, the Low Countries and France invaded, and once rode in a 6-29 on a raid on Japan) flew with a U.S.A.A.F. captain to Saint-Nazaire to cover the scheduled surrender of some hard-to-convince Nazis. Landing at a likely-looking airstrip near the town, they were met by a heel-clicking group of German officers. One of the Germans identified himself as the "commanding officer," and promptly unconditionally surrendered the entire force of 27,000-including the Luftwaffe...