Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Covered. In Regina, Sask., J. L. Sky, manager of the local Trans-Canada Air lines station, is assisted by a control-tower operator named A. C. Heaven...
...craft. The pilot was diving in low, at about a 15-degree angle. Terrific ack-ack poured into his plane and soon it was burning. But the Jap never wavered. He smacked into the middle of the smoke and a huge billow of orange-red flame reached for the sky...
...ordnance depots, an explosives plant, shipyards and shipping, U-boat pens. One day when U.S. Eighth Air Force bombers and fighters attacked airfields in the Berlin area, the Luftwaffe reacted violently, sending up the biggest swarms of jet planes the Americans had ever seen. All over the blue sky, twisting white vapor trails mingled with the black streaks of burning, falling planes...
...satisfying ideal. Surely the aggregate of all that horror is no more than the sum of each man's suffering, and the total can never be measured comparatively except by the individual who fights his own war in his own few cubic feet of earth, or water, or sky. . . . (PVT.) ROBERT LEE LAMBERT Camp Shelby, Miss...
...explosive let go-just time enough to flex a forearm across the face against the inevitable gale of glass and rubble fragments. Then, after V-2 had arrived, survivors heard the slower sound of its coming: an ear-filling roar which gradually diminished, finally losing itself in the sky...