Word: antiaircraft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...they came aboard, were in no misapprehension when they left. At 1130 p. m. a squadron of planes, easily identified as Japanese by the red balls on their wings, appeared and dropped their first bomb. A direct hit just forward of the bridge put the Panay's only antiaircraft gun out of action, slammed Lieut. Commander Hughes against the bridge wheel, broke his leg, and blew all the clothes off Lieutenant D. H. Biwerse of Sheboygan, Wis. but left him uninjured...
...raid and announced that I was at St. Marie's hospital. I had visited there to contact and help to evacuate two Catholic sisters. They left here on the President Hoover. I took them to the Customs Jetty. Their departure was heralded by a Chinese plane and Japanese antiaircraft fire. Virginia today received a phone call from one of the remaining American sisters who stated that the evacuees had left for the States from Manila on the President Hoover which you know was bombed. One of the sisters died in San Francisco the day after landing...
...placid bosom of the Whangpoo, and lying at anchor in midstream a line of foreign warships, prominent among them the elderly Japanese cruiser Idumo, flagship of lynx-eyed Vice Admiral Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Japanese commander-in-chief at Shanghai. While newshawks were still discussing their crop of rumors the antiaircraft batteries of the Idumo crashed into action. Somebody looked at a watch. It was exactly...
...Nobody deplores more than we the terribly tragic accidental bombing by two damaged Northrop planes. ... It is officially confirmed that both pilots were wounded and that [antiaircraft shots] damaged the bomb racks, which caused the bombs to break loose. Both wounded pilots are in Shanghai hospitals. It is incredible that the belief exists in some places that China deliberately bombed the International Settlement. What...
...British police admitted was the largest collection of foreign spies and counterspies ever to attend a British function. Of the British ships in line they were particularly anxious to see the new fast torpedo-carrying motor boats, the square-sterned anti-submarine net-layers Protector and Guardian and the antiaircraft ships, Coventry and Curlew. Old light cruisers about ready to be decommissioned, these ships have had, their superstructures swept clear and their decks jammed with batteries of the very latest electrophonic anti-aircraft guns and high-powered searchlights...