Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these strikes, 300 Superforts flew from Saipan, Tinian and (for the first time) from Guam. Each carried seven to eight tons of 500-lb. clusters of new M69 incendiary bombs. Each cluster comprised scores of 6-lb. incendiary bombs containing a jelly-gasoline compound. The total: about 700,000 incendiaries...
...Yesterday I flew over Düren by mistake; I knew we were on the wrong side of the river, but the pilot thought I was mistaken and looped down until we could see figures scurrying around the houses. Buildings were burning and shells were dropping steadily all over the place. Suddenly shots began to crackle all around the plane, and then came a blast of ack-ack. My pilot ducked full speed, maneuvering like a man dancing on hot coals...
They sat back, ready to chew up Alaska Airlines when it weakened further. But Tenderfoot Law planned to fool them. This week, he flew north with a hatful of plans which he firmly believes will 1) make Alaska Airlines undisputed top dog, 2) put it in a key spot athwart postwar Great Circle routes to the Orient...
...Worcester, Mass., the red flag flew over the city hall. Thanks to radio station WTAG, it was "U.S.S.R. Week...
...President left Yalta, and journeyed by road to Sevastopol, where there are many ruins, and flew on the wings of his Army to the land of Egypt. And there he took ship and received the rulers of that land, and of Ethiopia and of Saudi Arabia, on the lakes called Bitter or Mara of which it was written (Exodus...