Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Major General Ira C. Eaker, the Eighth's commander: Since March the Eighth has more than doubled its strength (mostly in heavy bombers for the strategic bombing of Germany), is now increasing at the rate of 15 to 30% each month. The day after General Eaker spoke, the lull ended. More than 200 U.S. heavy bombers soared out over Germany to attack Cuxhaven and Wilhelmshaven. That same night the R.A.F. sent out its greatest force of four-motored bombers to blast Dusseldorf and Munster with four-ton blockbusters and incendiaries...
...Buin, on Bougainville, U.S. flyers spotted new concentrations of Jap planes. Seaplane tenders were reported to have helped strengthen the Jap floatplane base at Rekata Bay. Flyers reported encountering two new fighter types, both faster than the Zero. Of the six-week lull in Jap air operations over Guadalcanal, Major General Millard F. Harmon, commander of U.S. Army flyers in the area, said: "It certainly is not going to last. They can reasonably be expected to resume bombing operations with planes improved in armor and armament...
...dissatisfaction. A soft-spoken man with light blue eyes, he is perhaps the 20-minute hardboiled realist of the U.S. high command. When others were gasping at the growing might of the U.S. Army in October 1941 (around 1,600,000), McNair said only: "Our great potentialities must not lull us into complacency." Earlier (in Louisiana) he got to the verge of unbridled praise: "If the troops' equipment were completed, they would give a better account of themselves today than American troops did in the World War." Then he added: "Which is not saying too much...
...week's end there was a momentary lull while they caught their breaths. General Anderson had not had time to bring up the heavy forces he needed to beat the heavy equipment the Axis had poured in. And Anderson had lacked adequate air support...
Appointed chief of the Navy's Bureau of Ships (charged with the building and maintenance of war vessels), Captain Edward Lull Cochrane, 50, succeeding Rear Admiral Alexander H. Van Keuren...