Word: strafings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gott strafe England," "God save...
...Furies to bomb Radio Baghdad's transmitting station twelve miles north of the capital. They did little damage. But four Iraqi air force planes loyal to Kassem counterattacked Shawaf's top headquarters on a bluff above Mosul. First they bombed it and then came in low to strafe. Six or seven officers were killed. Shawaf, wounded, staggered out of his command post, trying to bandage himself. One of his sergeants, figuring the game was up, finished him off with machine gun and bayonet...
...Chinese Communists used their advanced MIG-17 jets to strafe Nationalist Chinese craft trying to reinforce Quemoy. Said Nationalist Chief of General Staff "Tiger'' Wang Shu-ming, "I don't know how much longer we can practice restraint...
...Pakanbaru was wakened by the tumultuous honking and crying of thousands of disturbed jungle birds. Swarms of Sumatran fireflies, which travel in whirling galaxies resembling slowly moving fireballs, abruptly vanished. Then came the snarl of planes as a flight of old, U.S. -made F-51s swept in to strafe the shacks and hangars of Simpang Tiga airstrip, six miles southwest of town. After them came 16 lumbering transport planes; as they passed overhead, the sun-streaked sky blossomed with silken parachutes that brought 200 paratroopers to earth...
Simbolon is sure that if Djakarta defies their ultimatum, central government warplanes may soon be sent to bomb and strafe their headquarters. "We've penetrated the Djakarta government," says Simbolon calmly, "and we know that the Cabinet has decided to take military action against us at the end of February. By that time the government will have received four frigates from Italy and some arms from the Communist countries...