Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME War Correspondent James Shepley left Supreme Allied headquarters in France, flew to New York. Within the bounds of security, this is his report on the German counter offensive...
More than 1,000 German aircraft had been destroyed (against Allied loss of about 300). Such attrition sapped the Luftwaffe's hoarded strength at once: it flew an estimated 800 sorties on its first day, but by its third day could manage only 400 sorties. With some 12,000 planes at his disposal, Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder was mounting an average of 7,000 daily sorties...
From secret northern bases, bomb-carrying Mustangs flew out to pound and strafe Jap airfields at Tsinan, in Shantung Province, 800 miles northeast of Chungking. In two assaults, 67 Jap fighters and bombers were smashed. The outfit which gave the enemy this stinging surprise was the "Yellow Scorpions" squadron, named for the gaudy spinners on the planes' noses. The squadron had first distinguished itself in Burma; when it was transferred to China, the Japs had hailed the move as an opportunity for revenge. Now the enemy had more revenge...
Working as smoothly as their smooth, new planes, the Forty-niners played an important part in the Battle of the Bismarck Sea. They flew over the Owen Stanley mountains, strafed and dive-bombed on missions of their own, escorted heavy bombers, gave valuable support to ground troops all up the New Guinea coast...
...league operations by extending its routes west from Bismarck, N.D. to Seattle and Portland. Traffic was light. In some years, mail subsidies were 60% of Northwest's revenues. But Hunter made a reputation of flying his planes through bad weather-and over mountainous terrain-on schedule. Northwest also flew without a fatal passenger accident until construction bugs in their new Lockheed 14s spoiled this record with a crash in January 1938. Northwest's earnings cracked up too. They went into the red for two years...