Word: overcasts
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Spruance and Mitscher turned south to hammer the central Ryukyus. Main target was Okinawa, 60 miles long and up to 16 miles wide. The weather was bad, but Navy airmen hunted through the overcast for Jap airfields, arsenals and shipping...
...Overcast. The Japs claimed to have known, two days in advance, that the blow was coming. But they were strangely unprepared when the white-starred fighters dropped out of the overcast above each of the main airfields around Tokyo and tore across the strips, strafing scores of enemy planes still aground. Dive bombers screamed down almost vertically; Avengers roared in at a steep glide, each with a 2,000-lb. bomb. The Jap air bases erupted flames and smoke...
...bastards have gone up into the overcast...
...course came the one long, bleak and wearisome week of finals to be followed by the present week of worries, the worst phases of the war on the River front yet to be encountered. Heavy fog prevailed over Baker in many quarters for most of the period and continued overcast is now freely predicted until the spell is broken by the official reports due in a week...
Gleason looked back. "When the last dump went off there was a single column of black smoke that went straight up with the most terrific sound you ever heard ... a black column 100 yards thick holding up the overcast like a pillar." Gleason's destroyers joined the horde of China's fleeing homeless. Six people sprawled, exhausted, on the last bridge along their retreat. Gleason's men dragged them off, blew the bridge and hurried...