Word: interceptions
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...inside a "radio cage" set up by wave transmitters spaced in a two-mile circle around the launching site. On this theory, aiming the rocket was a matter of bouncing it from side to side of its cage until it was on course. It would be practically impossible to intercept...
Still classed as a gunnery instructor, Major Richard Ira Bong, top U.S. fighter ace, landed last week with the first Army planes to be based on Leyte. When Jap planes were sighted, five hours later, Dick Bong went out to help intercept, soon scored a kill. By week's end he knocked down two more, bringing his total...
...legend. In June 1943, Admiral Halsey began the drive to knock the Japs out of the rest of the Solomons. The O'Bannon was in the thick of that campaign. She was with the outnumbered cruiser task force which plowed into the dark hole of Kula Gulf to intercept and destroy nine to eleven Jap cruisers and destroyers. That was the night the great cruiser Helena was lost (TIME...
...improvised with bombers. In April he and his Liberator crew spotted an enemy fleet gathering in Rabaul harbor, gave a warning that enabled the U.S. Navy to intercept and smash the Japs' task forces in the Battle of the Coral...
...southwest Pacific flyers under command of General MacArthur and Admiral Halsey were busy as beavers. During the week some 500 tons of bombs were dropped on Rabaul, finally made so untenable that no Jap fighters rose to intercept...