Word: swoopings
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Across the bleak barrens of prewar eastern Poland armies surged last week, as they have for 1,000 years. The stolid peasants who saw the Red Army drive bewildered Germans back are descendants of patient men who have straightened up to watch fire & sword swoop by for 30 generations...
...savage swoop on two Allied convoys in the North Atlantic signaled the return of Germany's wolf packs with new tactics, new weapons. The battle of supply, temporarily won by the Allies, was on again in full fury...
...Instead of being able to make one swoop, the Navy has to carry dribbles of men and material to the rim of its positions, housing, feeding and protecting them meanwhile, until it has enough accumulated to launch an attack. In the Southwest area General MacArthur is circumscribed by the same lack of shipping. Australia is 7,500 miles from San Francisco. It is another 1,000-2,000 from Australian unloading points to the New Guinea battlefront...
...Pickup and delivery service of mail and express by planes that swoop low over rural airports would be extended some 55,000 miles...
This raid was only one of many hundreds of tip-&-run raids. The same day another coastal town was hit. England's Atlantic City, Brighton, had nearly a hundred raids. The Germans choose misty days and they swoop out of the clouds, sometimes with their engines switched off, spray the town with bullets, dump their bombs and are off before the ack-ack is effective...