Word: strafe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mimic maneuvers were to bomb the financial district, clean out a defense post at Columbus Circle, strafe the Hotel St. Regis as a theoretical centre of resistance (Navy umpires atop the hotel scored the attack). Formations were temporarily broken as the attackers engaged in imaginary cat-&-dog fights high over the city's craning millions. Proudest witness of the spectacle was David Sinton Ingalls, Assistant Secretary of the Navy in Charge of Aeronautics, the Navy's prime War ace, whose earnest purpose it is to impress citizens with the necessity for, and perfection of, the Navy...