Word: roaringly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From some place far away came a whining roar, and the whole sky seemed to be screaming toward us. Something like the sound of a dozen railway trains thrashed overhead, and the slope back of the tanks erupted. Soldiers looked up wide-eyed, and one said: "That must be that six-barreled rocket gun." (Prisoners had told us of this new German weapon, some with six barrels, some with five, on a revolving, electrically driven cylinder, firing five or six rocket shells almost simultaneously.) Our Honey tanks began climbing up the slope toward us, "Goddamn them," said an infantry officer...
Just after noon, the rocket guns started up again. This time they were not shelling our rear. They were not shelling our tanks. They were shelling us. That noise, that approaching roar, drowned out even the power to think. On the hill up which our soldiers were struggling, the rocket shells started fires. Soon, to the normal noise of the battlefield, was added the crackle and hiss of flames...
Horizon after horizon of hills fell away for plane after plane and the tents grew small. The group orbited round & round, forming up, and as they did so another huge group fell in, and others too, and over them all the fighters nervously ranged back and forth. Finally the roar peeled off across the sky toward Messina...
Then the many trucks took all the crews out to the planes, which were dispersed for acres. Shortly before taxi time the crews climbed aboard and the roar began which was the roar of numbers, and a dust cloud rose up which seemed to be the dust of a multitude on the desert...
...open a limited drive southeast to establish better defenses. But the Allied troops, now skilled in jungle warfare, tore into the Japs, killing 100. Boston medium bombers thundered low over the retreating enemy. After five days of scattered fighting the score of Jap casualties was 204. Planes continued to roar overhead daily, blasting supply dumps of an enemy whose supplies had long been bone-thin, strafing stubborn units which still persisted in helpless defense...