Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Durrance was not content with a single masterpiece: [there were] the leaky balloon; the old streetcar; the stealthy assassin (gurgle and choke); the delayed-action infernal machine; the badgered bear with its refreshing and vigorous variant, the dog with bone . . . [and] the difficult aircraft motif. He flew a four-hour mission, involving several hundred planes...
Knauth came to TIME soon after Pearl Harbor to write his personal knowledge of Central Europe into our Foreign News stories, but a year ago he flew to Turkey to take over the listening post we'd set up in Ankara to keep us posted on what was really going on in Hitler's Fortress...
...mother are both studying Russian on phonograph records. But travel to Russia is rugged these days even for a man. (Thompson went in an ATC plane that carried him across the Atlantic and the rim of Africa to Teheran, where the Russians picked him up and flew him over the Caucasus and into the Soviet Union. "The trip," he reported, "was cold, uncomfortable-and wonderful...
Allied air power worked on Germany last week like a two-man saw. East of the Oder River, U.S. Mustang fighters from bases in Britain flew wing to wing with Red Army Yaks to beat off a German attack on a Russian airfield. In Austria, Hungary and Yugoslavia, Americans from Italy joined Russian airmen in attacks. U.S. Mustangs downed German fighters shooting at Red bombers...
...Oder front, more than 700 U.S. bombers put on the strangle. Berlin was hit with a record U.S. attack (1,300 bombers, 700 fighters) on rail yards and armaments factories. British Mosquitoes went into their fifth week of unbroken nightly bombings of the German capital. Re-rigged R.A.F. Lancasters flew to Bielefeld and dropped the biggest bomb yet-an eleven-ton monster promptly dubbed "Townbuster...