Word: fogs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...vision, for instance, allows it to "see" beyond the horizon, through fog and clouds, in black dark. It can "see" through stone and steel to detect invisible internal flaws. It can "see" the whiskers on a disease germ that is only a speck in the best microscope...
...Detect fog, smoke, dust and vapors that are invisible to the eye, and take protective action...
...importance of meteorology in determining the course of wars was a major feature of the program. It was revealed that just recently, in the case of the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenan, protecting fog and low ceilling foreseen by German meteorologists had prevented aerial interference. The establishment of outposts at Spitzbergen, lecland and Greenland primarily for weather forecasts was stressed as well as the early German occupation of the vital weather post of Narvik...
Missing on Duty. Rear Admiral Robert Henry English, 55, commander of the Pacific Fleet's submarine force; somewhere near the west coast. A plane carrying him from Pearl Harbor circled near San Francisco, disappeared in the fog, four days later had not yet been heard from. He commanded the submarine 0-4 in War I, won the Navy cross for patrol duty, was made commander of the Pacific submarines...
...Kiska from Japan is to the south and west (where a Consolidated Liberator bomber sighted and bombed another cargo ship on the same day). Possible explanation for the B-25's victim being where she was: she was trying to slip into Kiska from the north, in the fog-shrouded Bering Sea where U.S. planes would be less likely to see her. But other Jap cargo ships were luckier. At least two in the past fortnight have landed supplies for the Jap force which still clings to the tail of the Aleutians. On their next raid U.S. pilots...