Word: scouted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Griffin and these 100-odd resident U.S. correspondents do a very important job for us. They scout for stories whose importance we might otherwise overlook; they telegraph local background and on-the-spot detail whenever an event of national interest breaks in their bailiwicks...
...lance pilot, adept in all the lordly and dangerous aerial perspectives of an abstruse continent, which she often superbly implies but seldom traps in words. She was, so far as she knows, the first woman to fly the mails in Africa. She was certainly the first human being to scout for elephants...
Added headaches for the harried Training Command are: 1) a shortage of flight instructors; 2) a tardy start on a campaign for glider pilots; 3) a growing need of liaison and scout pilots by the ground forces (infantry, artillery, tank outfits...
...Some of their targets sank at anchor; others, aflame, died on the harbor beaches. From three attacks that day, every U.S. plane returned to the mother carriers—the Lexington and another, unnamed—waiting 100 miles south of Tulagi with a covering force of cruisers and destroyers. _ Two mornings later, scout-bombers sighted a Japanese carrier-cruiser force, about 180 miles north of the U.S. force. Attacking U.S. pilots soon saw a standard Japanese naval pattern: a big carrier (the new, 50-plane Ryukaku) steaming astern of two cruisers. The U.S. planes were still ten miles away when the cruisers...
...planes and pilots littered the sea. U.S. fighters and bombers, pursuing the rest, found the Japanese main force. U.S. Navy carriers with their fighters, scout bombers and torpedo planes closed in for the kill. More Army bombers rose from Midway. They were not all. Tiny (1½-sq. mi.) Midway's limited airfield space was no limit on the total air strength which the Army could throw into the battle...