strafings

Thoughts caromed inside him, this way and that, strafings launched in a fight to the death, pounding his eyes and turning the taste in his mouth to dead metal.

An Old Sweet Song 2010

MCINTYRE (voice-over): The bombings and strafings seen on this aerial video obtained exclusively by CNN shows Haditha was a hotbed of insurgent activity back on that day, November 19, 2005.

CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2007 2007

PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The bombings and strafings seen on this aerial video obtained exclusively by CNN shows Haditha was a hotbed of insurgent activity back on that day, November 19th, 2005.

CNN Transcript Sep 1, 2007 2007

JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN SENIOR PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The bombings and strafings seen on this aerial video obtained exclusively by CNN shows Haditha was a hotbed of insurgent activity back on that day, November 19, 2005.

CNN Transcript Aug 31, 2007 2007

'Try and go slow, sir, we've had three strafings this morning.

Army Rumour Service 2010

Comannder Hughes ordered the abandon ship drill, and the civilians and sailor survivors were cast adrift, still victims of Japanese strafings.

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

Comannder Hughes ordered the abandon ship drill, and the civilians and sailor survivors were cast adrift, still victims of Japanese strafings.

Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009

Aside from incendiary aerial bombardments of every Japanese city, repeated smaller atrocities were common: shooting of prisoners, torture, lifeboat strafings, attacks on hospitals, civilian abuse, wounded buried alive, mutilated corpses.

CounterPunch 2009

I sensed my friend Jeffrey, the one whom I loved, but he hadn't been down here in years, was long dead in fact, put in the grave by the eons of strafings he'd laid on himself; and perhaps what I'd felt was merely a whisper that brushed past my ear—yet I could have sworn that it said we would meet on a pier on a cold windswept day at the end of a dream down the road.

Ten Dreams That Raised Some Of the Dead Robert Crisman 2010