Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ships lay like dozing ducks when Lieut. Commander Joseph Taylor, of Danville, Ill., saw them through the early-morning clouds. Over his inter-plane radio he called to the leader of a companion squadron: "Bill, you hit 'em high and I'll hit 'em low...
Dive-bombers dipped, torpedo-planes flew low and level at the massed Jap cruisers, destroyers, troop transports, auxiliaries. The attacking pilots swore and yelled into their phones in excitement. Some of their targets sank at anchor; others, aflame, died on the harbor beaches. From three attacks that day, every U.S. plane returned to the mother carriers—the Lexington and another, unnamed—waiting 100 miles south of Tulagi with a covering force of cruisers and destroyers. _ Two mornings later, scout-bombers sighted a Japanese carrier-cruiser force, about 180 miles north of the U.S. force. Attacking U.S. pilots soon...
...Ryukaku swerved into a frantic, leftward circle to dodge the U.S. bombs. The maneuver failed. So did the efforts of the cruisers, firing shells into the water ahead of low-flying torpedo-planes, hoping they would fly into the geysers. Bombs ripped into the Ryukaku, mantling her decks in smoke and flame. A gun mount soared lazily upward, curved overside into the sea. Then the torpedoes struck home, squarely amidships. Later the Navy said that at least 15 bombs and ten torpedoes hit the Jap ship. The Ryukaku had completed her third circle when she sank, with most...
From Midway Lieut. Colonel Walter C. Sweeney Jr. led three Flying Fortresses to the attack. Clouds compelled his crews to fly fairly low (at about 7,000 feet). The accuracy of the Japs' anti-aircraft fire surprised the U.S. pilots and bounced their planes around, but none was brought down. In this first attack, they reported hits on one cruiser, a transport, possibly a second cruiser and a battleship...
...down toward the valley; it had sprouted parachutes, brilliantly red, green and white. The English said they must take the Man at once to a secret rendezvous where a warship was expected. So the Goat guided them over crooked goat tracks only he knew, crawling through crevices where no low-circling Nazi plane could spot them. After two days & nights they reached the rendezvous; then the Man enbraced the Goat and urged him to come with them on the warship. The Goat shook his head said he preferred to stay and fight, though he knew the Man was King George...