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...through the mud, the rain lifted, and clearing skies over the Philippines again hummed with the angry sounds of air war. In one day the Japs tried to slip nearly 50 planes over U.S. installations on Leyte. P-38 pilots had a field day knocking down 35 of them; ack-ack did for seven more...
...first time since Guadalcanal, the U.S. superiority in the air was seriously challenged-but only spasmodically, usually at night, when ack-ack provided the main U.S. defense. From Cebu and Negros Jap airmen-some of them only four days out of Tokyo-repeatedly bombed and strafed MacArthur's positions...
...town found seven trolley cars of post-Tooner-ville design, they couldn't resist making their own V-weapon. A car was hauled to the tracks that led down to the city, packed like a Christmas stocking with captured shells, bullets, rockets, dynamite, TNT, hand grenades and ack-ack. On its sides G.I.s daubed a picture of Hitler, "Heil Heel," "Aachen Express...
...come home from the inferno and find a placid bunch of people who don't even know there's a war on. No bombers flew over us in a storm of death, chums. No snipers lurked at the corner of 3rd and Market; no ack-ack batteries picked us off in our penthouses. But that isn't our fault. It's a tribute to you. You kept us safe and we appreciate...
...Ack-ack guns shot down 1,500 robombs. Of the 2,800 guns, one-eighth were in U.S. batteries, which Duncan Sandys praised handsomely...