Flying threat (Var.)

Usage examples of bogy.

But after sunset, with the F6Fs back on deck and the pilots in their ready room, the bogies came back.

For another thirty minutes the bogies appeared hesitantly and indecisively on radar and then the scopes were clear.

The sun had hardly set on the twenty-sixth of November before the bogies began to appear around the edges of the scopes, many more of them than the radar operators remembered having seen before.

The bogies collected in murderous little gangs of two, three and four and rushed the ships.

Closer aboard they saw the flashes of destroyer guns as they took their own bogies under fire.

Twice bogies had been destroyed by the CAP inside of thirty miles, and in the evening a sub had been sighted submerging only seven miles away.

Despite all-day bogies, the night of the thirty-first was as though man had never fought a war in the Pacific, and on the morning of the first of April the combined force hit the enemy base of Woleai, about halfway between Truk and Palau.

D-Day minus 3, and flight operations began with a launch of twelve Reapers led by Bud Schumann, in the full dark at quarter past four, while the last bogies were still fading from the force radars.

But their attention was taken at once by smaller groups of bogies scattered all over the screen.

He and Boudinot remained airborne until 10:30, but no more bogies closed to interception range, and the rest of the night passed quietly.

General Quarters for another couple of hours while other bogies approached but did not attack, and then pointed her bow eastward away from Luzon and the Philippines.

With bogies all around and closing, Willie Kabler sent his men to General Quarters at 5:17 A.

CAP got a Tony only ten miles out, and by 4:23 there were six bogies inside the thirty-five miles, all closing.

Other bogies were around, and the flight deck forward was midnight-dark with smoke.

Dixie reported that the Thai formation was still pursuing the fleeing bogies and was now approaching U Feng.