Word: aire
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After two days of air-bombing, a heavy snowfall grounded all planes. The blizzard also impeded evacuation of foreigners from Helsinki and other cities. Most foreigners sought to cross the Bothnian Sea to Sweden...
...This stretches 55 miles across the lowlands and, besides pillboxes and blockhouses, it contains a maze of tank traps and barriers. The fields and fir forests here are studded with granite boulders, which the Finns arranged in serried ranks, buried deeply with their jagged points sticking six feet in air...
...first class Bofors anti-aircrafts. Their little fleet could do with support from Sweden's crack one, being mostly submarines, gunboats, motor torpedo boats, but Russia's clumsy battleships draw too much water to go close to shore. Chief disadvantage of the Finns is in the air, whence plenty of hell will rain on them before they win or lose. One young Finnish fighter pilot was credited in the first two days with shooting down single handed six Red bombers. Finland was said to have lost only two planes in the first four days. But even blunderers must...
...Great Britain the Ministry of Supply announced that a 13-year-old schoolboy, one John Clough, had (while bedded with a chill in the infirmary) worked out a new type of air bomb which was a "first-class idea," had passed preliminary tests...
Socialist Republics, with an overpowering advantage in citizens, Army and Air Force, was "forced" into action against the warmongering Republic of Finland...