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Word: superdumbo (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1945-1945
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Usage:

...Mustang pilot was rescued less than three miles off Honshu in broad daylight by a surfaced submarine. Jap picket boats dared not venture out: submarine and pilot were protected by a circling Superdumbo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE SEAS: The Lovely Dumbos | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

...Superdumbo, assigned to keep radio and visual watch for airmen going down, spotted three life rafts in the water. Already in contact with a submarine, the Superdumbo passed the word. But two Jap picket boats headed for the life rafts. The Superdumbo dropped four bombs which missed. Another Superdumbo showed up with two PB4Y (Liberator) Dumbos. They strafed and sank the Japanese craft, then guided the submarine to the survivors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE SEAS: The Lovely Dumbos | 8/6/1945 | See Source »

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