Word: refuelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Solomons bastion at Bougainville (at 31 knots) whipped close inshore and shot up Jap airfields one after the other while Marines stormed ashore at Empress Augusta Bay. Near the end of the job a Jap task force turned up. Burke, who had made a 31-knot run to refuel, was back on the job. The Little Beavers led their task force in sinking a cruiser and four destroyers that day. Navymen had never seen anything like the fury and deadly precision of the Little Beavers' attack...
Torpedo Eight's commander radioed the information, asked for permission to withdraw and refuel. Their gas was almost gone...
Without doubt an understanding with Russia was reached before the Balkan raids were undertaken, lest U.S. and Russian planes conflict in bombing targets. But to be fully effective the Balkan raids depended on Russian cooperation-and Russian ability to refuel and rearm the planes once they have landed behind Russian lines...
...Japs didn't seem to want to fight at Saipan, Tinian, Guam-bastions far to the northwest of Truk. Rear Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's carrier forces hit these bases and Truk within the space of five days (see col. 3), probably without returning to base to refuel or rearm...
...press conference, the President discussed postwar plans for air commerce. He was not alarmed by the fact that other nations would own the U.S.-built airports around the globe. He thought that nations should permit the airlines of other nations to stop and refuel on international flights...