Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the gloomy air of the weather office pervaded all of Cambridge as the meteorologist announced that the thermometer would hover around zero today. And as Boston prepared for a siege of December that may rival last year's, residents of Maine and New Hampshire heard the roofs crack over their heads while the wood contracted...
Thomas Dudley Harmon was about to score again. The Army Air Forces pilot and peacetime All-American halfback, shot down by a Japanese Zero near Kiu-kiang, was safely on his way, escorted by Chinese guerrillas, to the advanced Lightning Fighter Base somewhere in China. Waiting for him there were his first lieutenant's bars...
...lifted spray into the air, filling our mouths with a salty taste. . . . The first sign of action was a Jap multi-motored plane staining the sky with smoke as it fell into the sea. A P-38 had dropped on it from above. Almost within spitting distance a green Zero with red balls on its wings came up bravely beneath our tail, climbing and wheeling at the same time as bombers following us blazed away for a second before turning him over to the pursuits. On the horizon two more were coming...
...came in on a busy Thanksgiving afternoon. Zero pilots were getting in flying time at low altitudes while green-painted bombers, on the way to the great battles of the southwest Pacific, were parked wing tip to wing tip. It was a peaceful scene...
Captain Daniel T. Roberts, of Springer, N. Mex., was not present for the big parade. Three days before, he had been killed over Alexishafen when he tangled with his wingman while chasing a Zero...