Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bodyguard to an American of Japanese descent who was risking his life to act as an interpreter for us. He was a target for both Jap and American bullets...
...Target. Navy tacticians, who may have revised their first plans after the Gilberts attack, did not choose to invade the strong bases nearest Pearl Harbor (Wotje, Maloelap), nor those nearest the Gilberts (Jaluit, Mili) on the south. Instead they slapped around the enemy's end and pounced into his backfield, all the way to Kwajalein, largest atoll of them all (and reportedly the chief supply station for the Marshalls group...
Next day a fleet of 1,100 heavy bombers attacked the great naval base of Wilhelmshaven by daylight, plastered it with more than 1,600 tons of bombs. The attackers had to struggle through snow, rain and high winds to reach the target. Antiaircraft fire was heavy but Nazi fighter opposition was puny; only four U.S. heavy bombers were lost on the raid...
According to Sulzberger, ample evidence indicates that the weapon is a "crewless, radio-controlled aircraft, which, loaded to capacity with explosives and just enough fuel to get it to its target, can be accurately directed to its objective." Allied experts learned of the device and put the finger on its main weakness: complex launching mechanisms needed to get the projectile-aircraft into flight. Allied reconnaissance planes spied out the emplacements built to house the launchers, and bombers from Britain have been attacking the installations since last November...
...Wilson, Coolidge); after long illness; in his native Emporia, where for 49 years he had edited the Gazette, making it the most quoted of all country newspapers. To his widow and son, William L. White, who succeeds him (TIME, Jan. 31), came a telegram from a frequent Gazette editorial target, Franklin Roosevelt: "He ennobled the profession of journalism . . . a real sense of personal loss . . . we had been the best of friends." The U.S. had lost the last of its great personal editors, a friendly and forceful champion of freedom...