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...favorite hunting ground was the Truk lagoon, where he habitually flew through a storm of flak at 50 ft. in order to bomb and strafe Jap ships...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - HEROES: Reluctant Raider | 10/2/1944 | See Source »

...troops were on the verge of rioting when a Jap Zero came down to strafe them. Windadge made a quick draw with his bazooka, fired, made a direct hit on the Zero and stultified it. The rioting troops subsided forthwith, for that was shooting even in the Schoutens...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 26, 1944 | 6/26/1944 | See Source »

...they spotted a tempting enemy airfield, with planes lined up along the runway. It was too good to pass up. The flight leader, Major Walter Carl Beckham, 18-victory U.S. ace of the European Theater (TIME, Feb. 21), called four planes and roared down for a strafe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: Take the Boys Home . . . | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

Again Russian hamlets set afire by alien hands glowed in the bluish dusk, and misshapen figures dangled from the gallows. Again the thunder of Red artillery pursued the fleeing men through day & night, and white-painted Stormoviks hopped over the gaunt trees to bomb and strafe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF RUSSIA,BATTLE OF THE SEAS: Last Stand | 1/10/1944 | See Source »

...volunteer (Marsha Hunt), and a rather luscious, well-intentioned lot of newcomers whose chief qualifications for the job are their good intentions and a dabbler's acquaintance with first aid. Short of medicine, food, sleep and experience, they do what they can when the Japanese bomb their hospital, strafe their open wards...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Dec. 6, 1943 | 12/6/1943 | See Source »

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