Word: strafings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military academy on the north, the airbase on the south and Fort Guardia de Honor on the east. Tanks clattered through as street fighters kept up a running battle from doorway to doorway, the military bases exchanged artillery fire and government planes zoomed down to bomb tanks and strafe street fighters. The quaking government passed out arms to trade unionists and other civilian volunteers at the police station...
Major Pierce W. McKennon, one of the great aces of the war, was rescued from a German wheatfield in just this manner by his wingman Lieut. George Green . . . Lieut. Green even went so far as to strafe and kill the German soldiers who were attempting to capture McKennon before he landed, picked him up and flew out with McKennon sitting on his lap, having thrown away his parachute in order to make room in the cockpit...
...rger who kept their heads covered during the singing. The crowd yelled: "We're not Indians, not coolies, we must be treated like Germans." Other slogans repeated the contents of numerous anti-Semitic chain letters which have been making the rounds of the city recently. Shouts of "Gott Strafe England!" finally aroused British military police to arrest ten youths, one woman...
...commanders in China have orders to: 1) disarm the Japs; 2) help Nationalist China to her feet; 3) do all this without losing a man. Last week order No. 2 collided with order No. 3. Result: representatives of the most powerful nation on earth threatened to strafe a Chinese village...
There was no time to celebrate. Northward the German armies were stretched out on the roads, vulnerable to attack. Brazilian Expeditionary Corps troops and U.S. units swung by Bologna, bypassed the road center of Modena and drove to the Po. Overhead Allied flyers roared, flashed down to strafe the marching enemy; in one day 1,700 Nazi vehicles were destroyed or damaged...