Word: strafings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Norway. Explosions in Oslo harbor sank two ships, damaged two more. The powerful Norsk hydroelectric plant at Rjukan was blown up. German occupation forces used planes to hunt down and strafe civilians who daily fled over the rocky frontier into Sweden. Two more leading quislings were killed...
...field Giraud conferred with Eisenhower, Lieut. General George Patton and General Sir Harold Alexander, helped direct the capture of Gafsa (see p. 14). A German plane flew low over his own jeep but did not strafe it. Giraud shrugged his shoulders, thinking of his baraka (a supernatural ability to escape death). Wherever he went he asked: "Le Boche-where...
...second morning, Mitchell B258 dumped 500-lb. bombs on the enlarged target. Ten minutes later came Australian Beaufighters. Next another wave of Mitchells dropped explosives on dodging cargo ships and destroyers. This fight was for the kill. The Mitchells swooped low to strafe lifeboats and rafts. A destroyer, three merchantmen and a transport were sunk. Eight others were hit. One squadron of Mitchells, skip-bombing at mast level, got twelve hits, despite the nail of frantic Jap ack-ack. More Zeros appeared, but they too were shot down. Kenney's bombers were blasting at Lae, nearest Jap airdrome, with...
...Bomb & Strafe. That was the story of what happened last week along the whole northern Tunisian front. For Lieut. General Kenneth A. N. Anderson the Tunisian campaign had become a problem of air support and supply. His First Army had crawled along the Atlas Mountains, across ancient Roman bridges, through grey-green olive orchards, along roads choked with dust-long columns of light troops, motorized infantry, mobile artillery and some rumbling tanks...
...Strafer." Built like a horse, at 44 one of the youngest officers to hold his rank, he commanded the British 13th Corps in Libya. His full name and title: Lieut. General William Henry Ewart Gott, C.B.E., D.S.O., M.C. World War I veterans who remembered the Germans' Gott strafe England gave him the nickname...