Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Popular Front Government which came to power in February 1936 did not dare keep Franco in Madrid, but assigned him a responsible outpost command, the Canary Islands. He soon began plotting with other generals; as his part of the July revolt, flew to Morocco to take charge of the rebel troops there. Franco expected the whole show to be over in a week or ten days, scarcely dreamed of becoming the top leader...
Westward across the Pacific from the U.S. flew tall, taut Admiral Ernest King, Commander in Chief of the U.S. Fleet. Up from a post in the South Seas flew stocky, pugnacious Admiral William Halsey, Allied Commander in the South Pacific. At Pearl Harbor, in the chart-cluttered headquarters of white-haired, unhurried Admiral Chester Nimitz, Commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, a conference took place...
Another Admiral. Eastward above the sun-scorched plain of India flew the big transport Marco Polo. At New Delhi the plane circled down, taxied to a hangar's shade. The rear underhatch opened, a ladder thrust down. Out climbed an immaculately groomed Briton in the semitropical khaki of a Royal Navy Admiral. A welcoming line of high-ranking Allied officers, flecked with gold braid and turbans, snapped to salute. Admiral Lord Louis Mountbatten, cousin of the King-Emperor, ex-chief of the Commandos and now Allied Commander in Southeast Asia, briskly returned the salute. Down the line of officers...
Royal Canadian Air Force pilots flew back to base with reports of heavily gunned U-boats which had elected to stay on the surface and slug it out when Liberators pounced on them. One Liberator limped home with one of her four motors knocked out, flak holes in her wings, tail and fuselage, and one of her crew wounded. From air photographs it was clear that the U-boats were organized in fleets, prepared to fight underwater or on the surface. One submarine had at least ten deck guns, evidently stood by as an antiaircraft vessel while others concentrated...
...Army's Air Transport Command claims similar credit: it flew a badly needed batch of antitank ammunition from Miami to Egypt...