Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...base in central Japan one day last week, a heavy spring rain swept across the runways and drummed on the roof of a large corrugated metal shed. Inside, the leather-jacketed crews for ten U.S. Air Force B-29s crowded into the briefing room. "Gentlemen," said the major, as he laid his pointer on a ten-foot map of Japan and Korea, "our target for tonight is the rail bridge at Sinhung." Said the captain: "You'll each be carrying forty 500-pound bombs with nose fuses . . . Flak is expected to be meager until the release point...
Dusk was fading as the radar operators and bombardiers mumbled over slide rules and fed a mass of specifications on target, course and weather into their mysterious banks of electronic panels. Then the B-29s coughed into life, wheeled ponderously down the feeder taxiways to thunder off into the rain at three-minute intervals...
Cloudy and cool with occasional rain Monday. Highest temperature in the upper 50s. Southeasterly winds...
With its home opener washed out by rain two weeks ago, the cricket club will play its first game here this year at Smith Field (behind the Stadium) on Saturday afternoon. The match will be against Haverford, and the "opening bat" will start...
Philadelphia at Pittsburgh (rain...