Word: haya
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their heaviest artillery, sent a bombing fleet over it. Thereupon the Leftists took to the air, staged one of the most exciting airplane battles in months. Sent down in flames by a Leftist machine gunner, General Franco's officers admitted, was the Rightists' ace flyer, Carlos de Haya. While Rightists claimed the capture or destruction of thousands of Leftist soldiers and began to hail the battle as the turning point of the war, a series of explosions suddenly shook the city's outskirts. Leftists, answering the Rightists' bombardment from above, were blowing up Rightists from below...