Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Buin, on Bougainville, U.S. flyers spotted new concentrations of Jap planes. Seaplane tenders were reported to have helped strengthen the Jap floatplane base at Rekata Bay. Flyers reported encountering two new fighter types, both faster than the Zero. Of the six-week lull in Jap air operations over Guadalcanal, Major General Millard F. Harmon, commander of U.S. Army flyers in the area, said: "It certainly is not going to last. They can reasonably be expected to resume bombing operations with planes improved in armor and armament...
...before the war). Her Wright engines packed more than 8,000 h.p.-how much more the Army would not allow Lockheed to say. Her engineers had built her to span the continent in one hop of eight hours. With a full passenger load (52) she can outspeed a Zero. With any kind of load, she has an astonishing economy of operation: one gallon of fuel to the mile...
...That Goddam Target." It was dusk. The sea barely rippled, faded from sight and we were alone in the battleship greyness. It was censorable degrees below zero and we had reached censorable heights...
...successive days bombers from Guadalcanal flew 150 miles northward to the New Georgia Islands and bombed the Japs' advanced air base at Munda. Usually, in the first days, Zeros soared up from the battered runways. On the 13th no Zero appeared. In the skies around them and among the smoking hangars of Munda, the flyers from Guadalcanal saw no sign of Japanese life...
SCENE: The dining room at No. 10 Downing Street, London. TIME: Shortly after the zero hour of the American landing in North Africa. CHARACTERS: A few Churchills...