Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along the southern coast of the Mediterranean, from Algeria to Syria, Allied infantrymen, paratroopers, tank drivers and gun crews were waiting for the zero hour-the hour when the bombers had battered Europe's underside enough for the land fighting to begin...
...squadron commander, lean, black-eyed Captain Thomas G. Lanphier, tangled with a low-flying Zero, shot it down. He swung away, picked a bomber, shot it down too. Up above, the top-cover fight had broken off. A mission had been completed. The squadron whisked back to its Solomons base, wondered if it had nailed some Jap bigwig in the bombers...
...best Jap plane we've run into is the improved Zero, which we call the Hap. It has some armor protection for the pilot and a little more power than the Zero without sacrificing much maneuverability. But it blows up like a Zero when...
...Varied Approach. The A-20s had disappeared behind the trees and contours of the ground. No, here they were again. Seeming to run ahead of their own sound, they came in from all quarters, strafing the field at zero altitude with simulated machine-gun fire. No one gunner could have followed all of them, or even two of them, in their complicated crisscross of attack...
Visibility was zero. On his first pass the pilot missed the field; he circled for another try. Staff Sergeant George A. Eisel, in the tail turret, caught a blurry glimpse of the ground. Then, with a rending crash, the plane tore itself to wreckage against a low hillside. Eisel was hurled from his seat, forward among the dead. Flames licked close enough to singe his eyelashes before drenching rain put the fire out; 26 hours later he was able to tell rescuers what had happened...