Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Midway and the Solomons reduced the total known carrier force of the Navy to three, plus some converted merchantmen which are of limited combat value. Atlantic requirements and unreported, but always possible damage to remaining carriers may at any time reduce the U.S. Pacific strength to two, one-or zero. Even allowing for reported damage to Jap carriers last week (see p. 27), Japan may have a two-or three-to-one margin-although most of her carriers are somewhat smaller...
...moment later the bombs were falling. Low-swooping Zeros spattered bullets into grounded U.S. fighter planes and transports. Lieut. Joe Walker was barely off the ground when Zeros attacked, forced him to hedgehop across tea plantations to escape into the mountains. Another P-40 pilot, unable to take off, sat in his cockpit until a Zero set his plane afire and forced him to run for it. Two American Negro workers mounted a machine gun without cover on a runway, blazed away furiously at the zooming Zeros...
...Zero hour for the Crimson eleven this week is Thursday afternoon at 3:40 o'clock, when 28 players, two coaches, and retinue leave Soutir Station for Ann Arbor, Michigan and a somewhat athletic engagement with the University of Michigan's football team on Saturday...
...third Zero came right up under the belly of my plane, sowing bullets up & down the fuselage. I dropped the nose of my plane and came at him headon. One of his bullets hit my windshield right in front of my nose, but it missed me. My own bullets were tearing him apart. We tore past each other less than 15 feet apart. When I looked over my shoulder, he had lost control and was spinning down...
Just behind Smitty as a Zero killer are Major Robert E. Galer, a former University of Washington basketball hero, and Oregon-born Captain Marion Carl. Captain Carl lost five days' flying to Smith when he was shot down in his fighter No. 13. He bailed out at about 15,000 feet, hit the water four miles from shore. He struggled four hours before a native picked him up in a canoe. The native hid Carl until he was strong enough to start back to camp on foot. But the Japs had landed between the Marines and the native village...