Word: targets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning the Monsoon and dozens of her sister ships flew to the northeast, half the time over Jap-occupied areas of China. Over the Gulf of Chihli, in hazy weather, she lost her formation. But at 11:11 a.m. the target was in sight. Other squadrons had marked it with two great fires, one in the midst of the factory district...
Boom in Boomtown. The target was a group of war factories in the Jap boomtown of Anshan, 53 miles south-southwest of Mukden, where the Japs began their conquest of China 13 years ago. Dominating the forest of chimneys which rose from the Manchurian plain were the stacks of the Showa Steel Works, largest in the conquered provinces, Japan's No. 2 producer of pig iron, No. 3 producer of rolled steel and steel ingots...
While It Lasted. The first drive had been good while it lasted. Montgomery sent it away at 5:30 a.m. with the greatest barrage and air pounding of his violent career. Thousands of cannon worked over the target area, thousands of R.A.F. and U.S. bombers battered and steamrollered the little towns that could serve as enemy strong points (but even then some airmen growled that it "looked like another Cassino...
...reputation in two terms as District Attorney of Middlesex County, which surrounds Boston on the north with slums, farms and villages. In this time he sent the mayors of Cambridge and Lowell, and the State Commissioner of Public Works, to jail. (The mayor of Marlboro, another Bradford target, killed himself.) Bradford was re-elected with the biggest majority in Middlesex history (he had twice the lead of his fellow blueblood, Governor Leverett Saltonstall, who headed the ticket...
Germany's fast-evaporating oil supply had become a top-priority target. The Allied Air Forces in Europe hammered at that target with everything from rocket-firing fighter planes to heavy bombers-which last week completed an unprecedented three-way shuttle-bombing mission from England to Russia to Italy and back...