Flak over the target only stopped-or slowed-when Nazi fighter planes attacked the bombers of the 8th Air Force in World War II. Flak was anti-aircraft fire, and

This book, first published in 1992, is a unique repository of language use from 1941-91.

The 450th Bomb Group (H) contained the 720th, 721st, 722nd, and 723rd squdrons.

Air raid sirens wail, searchlight beams flash across the sky, and the night is aflame with tracer fire and aerial explosions, as Allied bombers and German anti-