The flight across the Channel was uneventful, but as soon as the formation crossed into German territory, ack-ack started opening up. |
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These were to include a close escort of six destroyers, four corvettes, three minesweepers, four armed trawlers and two ack-ack ships. |
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As ack-ack fire strafes the election skies, some policies fly and others crash to earth. |
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After nightfall, these half-empty streets will be alive with searchlights, ack-ack and the heavy drone of bombers. |
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But the war grew wings and swept on and except for one Ju 88 who buzzed the field without biting yet drew 5000 rounds from the eager ack-ack boys. |
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We were never bombed but there was lots of ack-ack going on. |
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The ack-ack of machine guns cannot be far away. |
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As he pulled up after the attack, an enemy ack-ack shell hit Munir's Sabre. |
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While he was overhead the Amritsar radar, his aircraft came under heavy fire from enemy ack-ack guns and got severe damage on the right wing. |
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A single burst of ack-ack, high and wide, announces our arrival. |
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Although the Germans claimed they had put up a massive ack-ack barrage and brought down six of our planes, the RAF said the true total of losses was three bombers. |
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With a huge, specially designed carburetor sucking air like a ram jet and individual pipes rather than a standard exhaust manifold, the result was like riding an ack-ack gun. |
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Ack-ack guns were operated by women for the first time in the war, preventing many home strikes by doodlebugs and the Luftwaffe. |
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During World War II he was conscripted into the 121st Light Ack-Ack of the Regiment of the Royal Artillery and is a veteran of the 'D' Day Landings. |
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