Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before German pursuit could get into the air the raiders had crawled back into the overcast and headed for home, after a lively half hour or so with every machine gun and anti-aircraft cannon in the area whanging away at them. Next day Britain announced that severe damage had been done to a battleship lying alongside the mole at Brunsbüttel, that hits had been made on a second man-of-war off Wilhelmshaven. Few days later an unconfirmed dispatch from Switzerland said the 26,000-ton Gneisenau had been sunk. Germany denied it, said its anti-aircraft...
...Belgian pursuit pilots, protecting their neutrality, got into a dogfight with two British bombers, forced down one, shot down another. One of the Belgian ships went down in flames after its crew had bailed out. Britain made an apology, its second in the week for British pilots who apparently had lost their way. (In the earlier instance the apology was for a pilot who dropped a bomb on an apartment in Esbjerg, Denmark, apparently during the raid on Brunsbüttel.) Neutral observers began to wonder whether the navigation training of British airmen, confined to the narrow limits...
...first line of defense, the Panama Canal Zone, the Army dispatched 30 officers, 859 antiaircraft artillerymen, five bombers (to patrol vital areas), 31 pursuit planes. In the Canal's Gatun Lake a Navy gunboat took up a symbolic if otherwise ineffective vigil. In Washington Army-Navy procurers stepped up rearmament spending, made the U. S. hum with Preparedness...
...planes dumped ton after ton of explosive on every city of any importance the length & breadth of Poland. They aimed at air bases, fortifications, bridges, railroad lines and stations, but in the process they killed upward of 1,500 noncombatants. The Nazi ships were mostly big Heinkels, unaccompanied by pursuit escorts. Germany admitted losing 21 planes to Polish counterattack by pursuits and antiaircraft. They claimed to have massacred more than half of a 47-plane Polish squadron which tried to bomb Berlin...
...principle which permits a State, in the selfish pursuit of power, to disregard its treaties and its solemn pledges, which sanctions the use of force...