Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...King thus categorically ruled out the much discussed possibility that Parliament's life might be extended. Political visibility was better, but a light fog remained. Some observers close to the Prime Minister hazarded the idea that he might try to catch opposition parties off balance by dissolving Parliament before Grey North voted. This would mean that there would be no Grey North by-election. It would also mean a general election just about the time an Allied spring offensive might be expected in Europe-good voting weather for Mr. King...
...third day of Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt's surprise offensive, fog lay like a folded shroud over the wooded hills and rocky fields of southeastern Belgium. Near Stavelot a large German armored task force of tanks, tank destroyers, self-propelled guns and trucks snaked northward. Its aims: to seize U.S. gasoline and supply dumps just beyond Stavelot, to cut in behind the communications and supply lines of the U.S. First and Ninth Armies. At little Stavelot (pop. 5,000) the Germans would be only 22 miles from Liege, vital U.S. supply point at the end of the line...
...task was to muster every fighter bomber into attacks, to impede Rundstedt's armored spearheads. Generals Van and Pete faced hard facts: 1) at many places air power alone stood between the German columns and their objectives; 2) there was little hope that the week-long drizzle and fog would let up long enough to get a plane off the ground...
Then darkness closed in. The pilots of General Quesada's "Hell Hawks" and "Panzer Duster" groups had counted 126 enemy tanks, armored vehicles and trucks destroyed, 34 more damaged. The U.S. loss had been one plane. The pilots itched for more such good hunting. But next day the fog was so bad they could not even take...
Measure of Success. No airman had ever contended that air power alone could stop an offensive, even in perfect weather. But the destruction of those fog-shrouded Nazi tanks could stand as a textbook example of tactical air power soundly applied under correct air-force doctrine...