Word: anties
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like the pamphleteering flights, British and French observation planes ranged over Germany, while German reconnaissance crews looked over French terrain to get information for Nazi intelligence maps. No losses were reported and the lie was given to German boasts that no hostile airplane could cross Nazi anti-aircraft defenses...
Before the attack pilots, flying the contours of the ground and sweeping out from behind barns and copses, have finished their work, some of them will have blasted anti-aircraft establishments to make life easier for the big bombers, far above them. From the bombing flights will whistle 500-and 1,000-pound streamlined, explosive-laden fish, aimed for bridges in the communications lines, factories, heavily built fortifications...
...above the bombers, trying to keep the sun at their backs, will be the pursuits, single-seaters in battle formation. Their job: to protect bombardment in its egg-laying. When the enemy pursuit rises to knock the bombers out of the air, hurtling through the bursts of its own anti-aircraft fire, when it locks horns with the protecting pursuit in swirling mass dogfight, military textbooks can be thrown away. For when the day's bloody work is over, the military schools will have fact for the next fight, instead of theory...
...catastrophe-we want peace." The slogan, "Down with Hitler! Down with War!" was reported chalked on walls in big German cities. Slovak troops on the Polish front were reported sandwiched between German troops to guard against desertion. Passive resistance was reported rife in Slovakia, Bohemia and Moravia, with former anti-Nazis being rounded up by the thousands. The British Independent Labor Party reported it had received a message from German Independent Socialists: "Hitler begins war with Poland against the will of large masses of the population. German workers do not want this war; German peasants do not want it. . . . This...
...Harvey Gushing, confronted with crowding thousands of head wounds such as he had never seen before, devised a dozen new brain operations by the light of a kerosene lamp in French front-line operating shacks. Tetanus, great killer in all previous wars, was practically eliminated by routine injections of anti-tetanic serum to all wounded soldiers. Fatalities from black gas gangrene were greatly reduced by immediate injections of vaccine, a treatment developed by famed U. S. Pathologist William H. Welch. The late Spanish war taught doctors a rapid, efficient blood-transfusion technique. But military surgery remains essentially a problem...