Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When General Chennault's flyers swept down on Formosa on the most dangerous raid ever attempted by our flyers in China, they took only one newsman along to witness the devastation of the great Shinchiku airdrome. That newsman was Teddy White of TIME'S Chungking Bureau...
...page 26 you will find excerpts from White's story of what he saw from the lead bomber as it dropped its fragmentations from almost suicide level on the Jap bombers massed along the runway just below. If the raid had failed of complete surprise, half the American flyers might have been shot down. Actually everything went off with such perfect precision that "all it cost us was the gasoline...
...literally devastated the great airdrome, shattered ground installations, strafed startled and fleeing Jap ground troops. We destroyed or damaged in the air or on the ground an estimated 50 Japanese bombers and fighters. Every American plane returned safely and not a single American or Chinese on the raid was injured...
...London's Daily Herald last week appeared the story of Sid and Syd. Neighbors from childhood, the difference between them was the way they spelled their names. In school, in scrapes, in games, in the R.A.F., they were always together. Together they were in a big Berlin raid, Sid as a gunner, Syd as a bombardier. Together they came back, Sid in his turret, Syd in the nose. Both were dead. In flag-draped coffins, side by side, they were taken home together...
Then, while their wives cling to one another in a dreary hotel room, the boys zoom off for combat overseas. Winged Victory ends in the South Pacific, with a Jap raid that explodes upon a camp Christmas shindig, sends the flyers into action...