Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eight Piper Cubs flew across German lines on Mt. Ceracoli. Over the target their pilots solemnly pushed out a few five-gallon tins of gasoline, circled to see what would happen. As they had reckoned, nothing much did. An enemy-held tree burst into brief flame, a pillar of smoke soared all of three feet into the air. The armada wheeled, made for home at 70 miles an hour, while bored Germans took desultory pot shots at them...
...should all get the Air Medal," said Staff Sergeant Edward Cooper, who described the attack as "epic, colossal, historymaking. It is the only one in recent months not made by mighty swarms of four-engined bombers. We failed to shoot down 120 enemy planes. We did not obliterate the target, and despite flak which was not thick enough to walk on, we did not start fires visible for 80 miles...
...Southwest Pacific, Correspondent Kluckhohn gave them another example of his style: a close-up of the U.S. "Ace of Aces"-stocky, 23-year-old Major Richard Ira Bong (TIME, April 24). Correspondent Kluckhohn doubtless meant his story to be warm, sympathetic, Ernie Pyle-like. If so, he missed his target by a wide margin. Wrote...
...Marshalls operation required some 1,500,000 barrels of ships' fuel. On Kwajalein one night twelve Jap planes got through, bombed a "particularly explosive target." Damage...
This time the target beyond the dark horizon was Palau, 1,176 miles due west of Truk, only 550 miles short of the Philippines. And this time it was a far bigger operation than any the U.S. Navy had previously undertaken in the Pacific. In fact, both in its execution and in its objective, this was an operation involving the whole Pacific theater...