Word: flew
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...richest men in the world and one of the most progressive of India's 562 princely rulers, the young (34) Maharaja (19 guns) flew from his province of Indore to Karachi en route to the U.S. He left to visit his sick wife and because of his own "grave reasons of health," the British Raj contended. But Indians put two and two together...
...Dangerous Situation. The New York Times's military analyst, Hanson Baldwin, who flew from the U.S. to the Solomons to look for himself, aptly described the Jap attack on the Marines as one prong of a three-pronged offensive. A second prong was feeling its way down the "impassable" Owen Stanley Mountain Range...
Another submarine attacked them. They escaped, paddled on across the blank sea. A week went by and rations dwindled. It rained and they replenished their water supply. More than two weeks passed. Then, suddenly, a patrol plane appeared in the burning blue sky, flew over them and dropped some food. They fished it out of the ocean, confident now that they would soon be rescued...
This is the story of Squadron 80, a group of British pilots who flew up from Egypt to help the Greeks against the Italians and Germans. It is also the love story of Flying Officer John Quayle and the Greek girl he married in the welter of the British retreat to Crete. But above all it is the story of the planes, the mechanical heroes of Squadron...
They were fighting planes of a breed that is almost extinct-old Gladiator biplanes with none of the weight and speed of Hurricanes and Spitfires. But they could do "tight loops and tight turns" that their newer rivals never could. When Quayle and his mates flew their Gladiators above the front lines in northern Greece, their orders were to ignore the enemy fighter escorts and get the bombers...