Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...example, last week John Hersey flew in over the Tiber in a B-26 Marauder, had practically a front row seat for the bombing of Rome. Had our new radio program been on the air that day we could have let you hear his whole eye-witness story that very afternoon...
...Hollywood's bachelor Congressman, grey-thatched John M. Costello, member of the Military Affairs Committee, flew to the coast with Lieut. General Henry H. Arnold and Britain's Sir John Dill for a quick inspection of aircraft plants. To John Costello the aircraft workers unburdened themselves: they were shocked when they saw the first tax deduction on their paychecks. They did not mind paying now, but how long would this...
...balls flew toward, over and among the boats. The Italians on the shore had depressed their ack-ack guns. A soldier, crouching, head down, said: "Shooting at the boats. Jeezus...
Over a British airfield, Lieut. Ralph Johnson found he could get only one land-ing wheel of his P47 down; a machine-gun bullet from a German fighter had jammed the other. He went back upstairs to think it over, and Lieut. Colonel Hubert Zemke flew up beside him to see what the trouble was. Their radio conversation, recorded in the field control room...
American, British, Canadian and South African airmen in Fortresses, Liberators, Wellingtons, Marauders, Mustangs, Spitfires and Warhawks created that impression. From North Africa, from Pantelleria, from Malta, Egypt and Libya, they flew over Sicily and Mother Italy, revealing to the enemy and to the world a perfected pattern of the new warfare...