Word: groundedness
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"Your great hour has struck. Strong attacking armies are advancing today against the Anglo-Americans. I do not need to say more to you. You all feel it. Everything is at stake. You bear the holy duty to ... achieve the superhuman for our Fatherland and our Führer." After...
To protect Tokyo from the Superfort raids they expected and feared, the Japs kept sending down medium bombers to pock Saipan's runways and try to keep the B-29s grounded. Last week, in one such thrust, the enemy destroyed one $600,000 Superfortress, damaged two others. But the...
Voice of Freedom. MacArthur sat upright in the stern of the barge. When it grounded in shoal water, he walked down the ramp and waded ashore. He was wet to the midriff, but the sun glinted on the golden "scrambled eggs" on his strictly individualistic cap as he faced a...
Richard Ira Bong came home last spring with 27 enemy planes to his credit, the country's leading ace. Soon cornfed, snub-nosed Dick Bong told home folks at Poplar, Wis. that he was through with combat flying. Lieut. General George Kenney had grounded him "because he didn'...
It was over Puluwat Island that the tall, drawling, 36-year-old Miller got the one wound which ever grounded him for very long. An antiaircraft shell burst just above his plane, put Miller out of the fight for six days.