Word: monsoonal
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...morning sun was lacquering the China sky a brilliant red when the B-29 Superfortress Monsoon roared down the long runway. It seemed she would never get off. When the heavy-laden monster finally rose, the crew opened the hatch, only to see the ground still hugging them. Said a crewman, closing the hatch: "Maybe if we don't look it'll go away...
...heavy-laden Monsoon slashed through a treetop, dented a belly blister before she began to climb. This mishap did not interfere with her flight to Manchuria. Neither did an instrument panel fire en route, nor the discovery that three vital instruments (altimeter, rate of climb gauge and airspeed indicator) were knocked out, probably by the treetop. Duplicate instruments...
...morning the Monsoon and dozens of her sister ships flew to the northeast, half the time over Jap-occupied areas of China. Over the Gulf of Chihli, in hazy weather, she lost her formation. But at 11:11 a.m. the target was in sight. Other squadrons had marked it with two great fires, one in the midst of the factory district...
...Through Monsoon and High Water...
Last week he was working on the next 77-mile stretch to Mogaung, through rain that averaged an inch a day, had already washed out some of the 700 bridges on the twisting road. The road, he had promised, would stay open despite monsoon and high water...