Word: strafings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preceded us over the airport by a matter of seconds, diving to strafe the field. I peered out the side blister as we made our run and counted 14 Jap planes burning, bursting outward like brilliant red buds and then flowering into orange and black coronas...
...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...
...only 70 miles of water from horn-shaped New Britain, which points at New Guinea. Liberators in one raid last week pounded the horn's point with 94 tons of bombs-a heavy raid for that theater. Kenney's fighters flew 250 miles from their base to strafe enemy shipping and installations in , the horn's curve. At the horn's far end stands Rabaul, the enemy's key position in the area and the logical climax of the General's blitz...
Flames shot into the air. Bullets began zinging around the heads of the spectators on the field-"as if some berserk machine gunner were trying to strafe the world," one spectator said later. A creeping curtain of flame covered the sagebrush desert for half a mile around the wreckage. Crash cars and ambulances stood by helplessly...
...need not have flown missions; in fact, he rarely went out on routine jobs. "But when the mission was going to be tough," said the pilots, "we could be sure Cheli would be out there with us." On Aug. 18 Cheli went out with them to bomb and strafe the Dagua airfield...