Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High & Low. Some time that night eight more ships joined the convoy...
...second morning, Mitchell B258 dumped 500-lb. bombs on the enlarged target. Ten minutes later came Australian Beaufighters. Next another wave of Mitchells dropped explosives on dodging cargo ships and destroyers. This fight was for the kill. The Mitchells swooped low to strafe lifeboats and rafts. A destroyer, three merchantmen and a transport were sunk. Eight others were hit. One squadron of Mitchells, skip-bombing at mast level, got twelve hits, despite the nail of frantic Jap ack-ack. More Zeros appeared, but they too were shot down. Kenney's bombers were blasting at Lae, nearest Jap airdrome, with...
...Kenney sent in his flyers for the final blow. Low-flying Havocs (A-20s) struck first. Fortresses returned with more 1,000-lb. bombs. Three] minutes later Mitchells roared down to machine-gun the battered, burning ships. Lightning fighters darted at a cloud of Zeros. A new wave of Fortresses came over, low. Flame cloaked a destroyer. A 5,000-ton merchantman burst open. Four others were hit. Low-flying fighters turned lifeboats towed by motor barges, and packed with Jap survivors, into bloody sieves. Loosed on the Japs was the same ferocity which they had often displayed. This time...
...than a clean sweep for the United Nations, the Bismarck Battle was a clear-cut victory of land-based planes, carefully coordinated, over a concentration of ships and their escorting aircraft. Bombers operating at all angles and altitudes had shown new accuracy. But heavy and medium bombers, coming in low, had dealt the deathblows. U.S. airmen's bumbling failure to halt or even hit a similar Jap convoy bound for New Guinea last July had been retrieved...
...success while India was packed with troops (mostly Indian). It was also clear that Gandhi's fast, hitherto an infallible weapon in reaching moral victory or political compromise, had achieved neither. The one channel left to them was political action, and the chances of effective action were low indeed last week...