Word: hit-run
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...eyes moisten visibly when the men cheer his public appearances; he cannot make a smooth, cliche-packed speech of thanks, but is more likely to blurt (as he did after the first hit-run raids): "I've never been so damn proud of anybody...
...course in aviation which would qualify him to wear wings. But he listened attentively while his flying officers-"Bull" Halsey, Forrest ("Fuzz") Sherman, Frederick ("Ted") Sherman, Aubrey W. ("Jake") Fitch-argued the case of the carrier-cruiser task force. Nimitz was convinced. He sent Halsey out on the hit-run raids which buoyed the fleet's morale, and the nation's, early...