Word: intercepting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unlike most other raids in China, this one required a flight across treacherous mountains, through heavy weather, and an. approach over enemy-held Indo-China territory. If the Jap spotted the force on its way to Haiphong he would have time to send fighters from Canton and Hanoi to intercept it on the way home. Nonetheless, stout, scowling Colonel Caleb Haynes, boss of General Chennault's bombers, set out to hit Haiphong with everything...
...planes from the fourth, so far unsighted, Japanese carrier attacked a U.S. carrier. Said a torpedo-plane pilot who saw U.S. fighters intercept the Japs: "It looked like the sky over there was covered by a curtain of smoke streamers—a curtain of Japanese going down in flames." Only six or seven Jap bombers got close enough to aim their missiles at the carrier; all were shot down by antiaircraft fire...
...always felt it necessary to do: they would protect his rear and divide his enemies. Before he turns his full attention to Russia, he might think it wise to try to eliminate the growing threat from the British Isles. He might think it not only wise but necessary to intercept the flow of goods from the growing arsenal...
...delegates looked back over the conference, they must have felt twinges of uneasiness. Were these fellows to be trusted, after all? Would the weapons arrive in time? Would Hitler's new drive intercept the supply lines? Was all this speedy wordage just a waste of good intentions...
...position. From Saigon and Cam-ranh Bay (an excellent fleet anchorage which can be made in time into a naval base) the Japanese now can more easily cut the British sea route from Singapore to Hong Kong. Moreover, they have a central position from which to intercept fleet movements between Manila and Singapore. With Japanese bases in Indo-China, Hainan, Formosa and the mandated islands to the east of the Philippines, Manila is now almost encircled by Japanese outposts...