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One of the bombers was damaged and attempted to make a forced landing, only it exploded upon contact with the ground, killing the entire crew.
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One hundred and thirty-eight Lancaster bombers, short on fuel, jettisoned approximately 100, 000 incendiaries in a designated area before landing.
One reason is the US strategy of daylight precision bombing and the corresponding high loss rate it causes to the American bombers to enemy antiaircraft fire and enemy fighters, the latter being aggravated by the fact that there are not yet any US or Allied fighters with sufficient range to escort the bombers to and from their targets.
One major responsibility was the analysis of U. S. bombers ' efficiency and effectiveness, especially the B-29 forces commanded by Major General Curtis LeMay in India, China and the Mariana Islands.
One of the four ' Bat Team ' fighter pilots to conduct this experimental night fighter operations to intercept and destroy enemy bombers attacking Allied landing forces was then-LT Roy Marlin Voris, who after the war founded and commanded the Navy's flight demonstration squadron, the Blue Angels.
One of the German bombers saw Pokryshkin firing the only machine gun in the area and flew straight at him, dropping small bombs in a shallow dive.
One of the most urgent problems of the Command was thus to develop technical navigational aids to allow the bombers to find, at least, the right part of the country.
One German night fighter pilot, Hauptmann Reinhold Knacke, shoots down five bombers during the night.
One of the stories he told concerned how, as a result of a WWII-era, government-administered aptitude test, he was assigned to design machine gun turrets for bombers.
One of the largest attacks was on the Greek Navy's flagship, the Queen Olga, sunk by German bombers on Sunday September 26, 1943, along with HMS Intrepid, while they were anchored in Portolago.
One of the press kit releases was titled " The Korean War and Revelations ", and it said that during the Korean War, a B-29 pilot took a picture of " the face of Jesus Christ ... amidst the bombers.
One type of operation was fighter escort for " Circus " raids, in which a small number of RAF bombers ( originally Bristol Blenheims and later Short Stirlings ) were used as bait to draw up enemy fighters.
One battles bats, rats, and mad bombers along the way with his stout fighting rod that shoots balls of fire.
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One thing was certain -- his method was effective, so effective that after a time even the warning notices were often unnecessary.
One is tempted to say that, on the difference between the concepts of sovereignty in these two preambles, the worst war of the Nineteenth century was fought.
One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up.
One evening, while a volley-ball game was being played in the yard among the prisoners remaining there, a simulated melee was staged -- just as the gates were opened to admit other prisoners returning from work.
One of the pictures was of a man with hat drawn over his face ceremoniously lighting a cigarette ; ;
One thing Papa had not taught Henrietta was how to handle a young man as high-spirited and opinionated as herself.
One day he assigned me to lay bare a `` plot '' by the Duponts to supply munitions to a wholly fictitious revolution he said was about to occur in Cuba.
One shawl was so tremendous that she could not wear it, so she draped it over the banister on the second floor, and it hung over the stairway.
One historical authority presents laborious and circuitous testimony tending to arouse suspicion that Massachusetts was behind the clouds settling down on the embattled Gorton.
One example of this was his assertion that `` all servile revolts must be dealt with by physical force ''.
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