Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tail-End Charley" (last plane of a flight) caught this picture of flaming Ploesti during the U.S. raid on the Rumanian oil center which supplies vital fuel to Germany (TIME, Aug. 9). Delayed-action bombs had not yet exploded when the camera clicked, but incendiaries had started a network of fires. The U.S. Liberators dropped 300 tons of high explosive and thousands of incendiaries from as low as 100 ft. Planes flew through sheets of flame, emerged covered with soot, while gunners dueled with rooftop anti-aircraft and saw people waving from the streets. Losses were high...
...Fortress, fuel exhausted, landed in neutral Sweden. Crew members, all uninjured, were interned...
Both in retreat and in their stand near Catania, the Germans already had shown the signs of defeat. Prisoners complained that they were short of tanks, that what tanks they had left were short of fuel. In demolition the Germans had been as skilful as ever. But they were even short of land mines, old standbys of the Wehrmacht in retreat. At this season the rivers were dry, and the Allies had only to march around the ruined bridges. The Germans grew weaker & weaker in the air, until finally Allied soldiers on the ground seldom looked up when they heard...
Canadians have their own gripes: the wood-fuel situation is a mess; some believe beer rationing is a temperance plot by the somewhat arid Mackenzie King Government; the much-heralded "cost of living bonus" to peg wages to prices hasn't satisfied labor; the Canadian farm bloc-as in the U.S.-is on the loose to boost farm prices...
...France. In shrill Martinique accents they sang the Marseillaise, cheered the new High Commissioner sent by the French Committee of Liberation, Henri-Etienne Hoppenot, and cursed the departing ruler, Vichyite Admiral Georges Robert. Offshore U.S. freighters, the first in eight months, waited to unload food for the hungry islanders, fuel for autos running on 8% gasoline...