Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Suddenly below us is the grey shadow of a Zero plane, sneaking up. Sergeant Ed Cooney, of Rushville, Ind., swings around in his gunner's position and "lowers the boom" on him. Two rapid bursts, then one of Ed's guns jams. But the other one keeps firing and the Zero falls away. Other Zeroes are in the air, climbing...
...away to the west, Cocky Daniels has run into his first Jap. He told me about it afterwards. He reached for the switch, said to himself: "Ah, at last." But the Zero jumped on Cocky's tail. He pulled up, but his plane stalled. When he came out of it at 4,000 feet he found two Zeroes on his tail. He dove, ending up with the altimeter reading 1,000 feet and doing 500 an hour, hedgehopping and gradually pulling away from the three Japs who had followed him all the way. His exhaust was shooting smoke...
Close over the ground he sped at 350 miles an hour, pulling away from all but one Zero. Then, Cocky said, he began thinking to himself: "Here I'm the guy who's been doing all the talking and I'm running away." He made a turn and found himself coming head-on toward the Zero. The Jap made a quick half-roll, momentarily flying upside down and attempting to get on top. Cocky pulled up and poured three or four bursts into the Jap, whose plane began spitting blue flame. The planes whizzed by each other...
...brown earth of an airdrome near Hengyang, in southeast China, lay the shattered Zero fighter of a Japanese flight commander. In the grey streets of Hengyang city, in hundreds of broken bits, were splashed the remains of Japanese B-4 bombers. Round the city, in the fields and hills, were the fire-blackened skeletons of other Jap ships. All 17 of them were evidence of the Jap's fate when he gave up bombing Chungking after one attempt and tried another target...
...melee emerged the first hero of U.S. action in Europe, Captain Charles C. Kegelman of El Reno, Okla., who was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for cool daring. Kegelman's plane lost a propeller and a nose section at near-zero altitude. One motor caught fire and then the bomber scraped ground, damaging a wing and punching a hole in the fuselage. Kegelman regained control of his plane and flew on from the target area, only to be faced a few moments later by intense fire from a nearby anti-aircraft tower. He dove straight at the tower, silencing...