Word: triads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...precipice of the ship's square bow; faltered, lifted, droned away. The rest of the Lexington's planes followed, at 15 to 30-second intervals. Away from their carriers, against the sky, the planes looked bigger, changed from bees to birds. As they took their close-packed, triad formations, the ocean changed to a duck-marsh, with here wedges of swift teal (the fighters), here a group of bigger black duck (scouts), and there a string of geese (the bombers). In about a half-hour enough planes were put in the sky to panic-strike, if not devastate...