Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the bombers returned, found German pontoon bridges mending some of the gaps, smoke pots placed for protection. Wind waved the smoke aside. At the end of 72 hours, 28 bridges (rail and pontoon) were out. Said Uncle Joe, one of the war's great tactical air-forcemen: "This is an outstanding feat in the history of aerial warfare...
...Superfortresses droned over the cluster of factories in their first daylight operation, flames from the bombed plants billowed up to 6,000 feet, smoke to 26,000. But the B-29s were above these, above the ack-ack, and above the effective fighting ceiling of Jap Zeroes. The first high-level operation of the kind for which B-29s were designed (as distinct from medium-altitude night bombing such as the two previous attacks on Yawata and Sasebo) was a success. Only two planes were lost. Total for three raids...
Tall, boyish Photographer Bede Irvin of Des Moines went overseas for the Associated Press with hell-for-leather enthusiasm. When D-day came, he was delighted. Last week he watched U.S. infantrymen moving through barrage smoke west of Saint-Lô. He forgot caution, barely noticed a wave of Marauders coming in low behind him as someone yelled: "Watch out, their bombs are falling short." In the moment-too-long he waited to grab his camera before jumping for a ditch, a bomb fragment got him. He was the 18th U.S. newsman to be killed in World...
While the 1943 crop was below the 1938-42 average, 1944-5 crop is expected to top last year's by 20%. Thus manu facturers can continue to draw on present stocks and continue to maintain production at record-breaking levels, while the U.S. continues to smoke more than ever...
...story of this game is the story of the fourth inning. Leading 4 to 1 as a result of sloppy Tufts fielding, the Crimson really teed off in the last of the fourth. Two were out when the fireworks started, but before the smoke had cleared eight Harvard men had crossed the plate and the ball game was salted away...