Word: midflight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brought to Action (U. S. Navy-War Activities Committee), is a beautifully edited, terse (21-min.), finely lucid record and explanation of the Second Battle of the Philippine Sea. Certain of its shots of doomed and dying enemy ships, of enemy planes coming apart in midflight, give a clearer realization that human life is involved in them than anything in the greater naval record Fighting Lady (TIME...
...manpower is not enough. Neither is courage and superb morale. China cannot match Japan's 1,500 planes, her trucks, artillery, rail lines; cannot match Japan's skilled staff-work, mapmaking, and strategy; cannot stop those bombs in midflight. Worst of all-and what may beat China-is the suffocation of choked trade lines...