Word: raider
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pilot Walter S. McDonnell had spotted another surfaced raider and had put his big, four-motored Liberator into a dive. Also caught by surprise, that German crew' chose to fight it out. They turned deck guns on McDonnell's plane. The bombardier, navigator, co-pilot and assistant radio operator were wounded; McDonnell leveled off only a few feet above the waves, his wounded bombardier dropped depth charges which straddled the wriggling chattering sub. In a mass of smoke and fire it broke in two and sank...
Missing in Action. Air Forces Lieut. Colonel Charles Greening, Tokyo raider credited with devising the 20? bombsight that was used lest a Norden fall in Jap hands; in a raid over Italy...
...photographic reconnaissance on the Northwest African front, the Air Medal was awarded to Colonel Elliott Roosevelt, who last December got the Distinguished Flying Cross. In Auckland, N.Z., on leave from command of a raider battalion in the South Pacific, older brother Lieut. Colonel James Roosevelt was reported headed for the San Diego Naval Hospital with a light case of malaria...
...radio net that Mickey dominates by sheer voice power is an entirely new web thrown over the superlative Chinese A.R.P. net in the last eight months. Never in the past four years has an undetected Jap raider slipped through that net into the hinterland. The Chinese posts are usually far away in hills, jungles and valleys. One man pumps current for the radio with his legs, another reports what the Japs are doing...
Despite the forewarnings given by wary sky-watchers, no Nazi raider approached the examination hall, and English A endured its umpty-sixth mid-year exam without the ignominy of aerial competition...