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...week, a Time correspondent observed that the state-controlled media has cranked up anti-American rhetoric for its domestic audience?a recent TV segment just before the evening news featured grisly photos of dead babies allegedly killed by U.S. bombing during the Korean War. There were also reports of air-raid sirens during a civil-defense drill in Pyongyang last week. But there was no sign of other unusual activity in the quiet capital or on either side of the demilitarized zone...
...crisis, working with allies South Korea and Japan, as well as Russia and China. But Pyongyang, which pulled out of a nuclear non-proliferation treaty in January, insisted that only direct talks with Washington will do - and seemed intent on persuading its people that a U.S. attack was imminent. Air-raid drills are conducted daily, and conditions steadily worsen in the impoverished nation, which is under an oil embargo imposed by the U.S. and its allies. A severe winter hasn't helped. The energy shortage is apparent in classrooms, where students wear coats and gloves; in apartment buildings, where elevators...
When the British air force raided the German city of Darmstadt on Sept. 11, 1944, the fires set by the incendiary bombs were so intensely hot that, of the night's 12,300 mortalities, the bodies of many of those who were trapped in underground shelters shriveled to the size of dolls. "A crying boy in an air force uniform came out of the cellar, a covered enamel bucket in his hand," an anonymous survivor remembers. "It contained his parents." The military details of the Allied air warfare on Hitler's Germany between 1940 and 1945 have been extensively described...
...pictures. Spatial words such as over and under had no meaning for me until I had a visual image to fix them in my memory. Even now, when I hear the word under by itself, I automatically picture myself getting under the cafeteria tables at school during an air-raid drill, a common occurrence on the East Coast in the early 1950s...
...air raids in Budapest started in 1943. The family was dozing in an air-raid shelter in the middle of the night when a nearby apartment house was hit: "It looked like a big knife had sliced off the front half of every floor. You could see into the apartments on all four stories, like a doll's house." In March 1944 the German army marched into Hungary: "The German soldiers...wore shiny boots and had a self-confident air about them. They reminded me of my toy soldiers...I was impressed." Soon the Jews were required to wear...