Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other commercial pilot in the world. He has had only three bosses in his 25 years: the Post Office, Boeing, and, since 1927, United Air Lines. And the nearest thing to a serious accident in his 24,000 hours of flying time was when he got lost in a fog over New York Harbor in 1920, had to make a groundloop forced landing in a small clearing on Staten Island...
General Weather. Fog, rain, snow, tide, wind and moon will have much to do with the timing. Cold, rainy, foggy January and February are poor invasion months. March is better, though its winds can play havoc with shallow-bottomed craft. Treacherous, unpredictable Channel fogs are no worse in March than in any other month...
...moonlit nights; sailors detest them. The Navy's ideal for an invasion is a dark night, with a light breeze and fair visibility. Next best is a full moon, shrouded with clouds so that just enough light filters through to maneuver ships & men. But the sailors especially hate fog; though it provides cover against the enemy, it hampers naval gunnery, endangers crowded shipping, grounds friendly airmen...
Like two giants groping through a fog, the U.S. and Great Britain struggled haltingly toward solution of a vast and embarrassing problem last week...
...last Yale-Harvard game to be played in decent weather was an accident. The weather man overslept and forgot to turn on the wind-snow-rain-cold-fog machine. He'd been out the night before celebrating South Carolina's secession from the Union...