Word: antis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cloudy afternoon Dutchmen heard the drumming of war engines as a big flight of bombers sped east across The Netherlands, safe from anti-aircraft fire above a thick overcast. From their course, air-wise Dutchmen (who protested this violation of their neutrality) concluded they were headed for three Nazi naval bases (Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Brunsbüttel), clustered in a 50-mile circle around the North Sea mouth of the Kiel Canal. They were right...
Warned by the rumble of approaching motors (and probably by espionage reports), Nazi anti-aircraft men, crouched beside their guns, had no targets until the British raiders burst from the overcast in a driving rainstorm. Out of formation peeled the raiders. Down they dropped in screaming power dives, slamming heavy bombs at some of the juiciest bombing targets in Germany: men-of-war and vital establishments in docks, fuel storage, ammunition supply...
Before German pursuit could get into the air the raiders had crawled back into the overcast and headed for home, after a lively half hour or so with every machine gun and anti-aircraft cannon in the area whanging away at them. Next day Britain announced that severe damage had been done to a battleship lying alongside the mole at Brunsbüttel, that hits had been made on a second man-of-war off Wilhelmshaven. Few days later an unconfirmed dispatch from Switzerland said the 26,000-ton Gneisenau had been sunk. Germany denied it, said its anti-aircraft...
...British bombing attack on the German base-island of Sylt off Denmark's southwest corner. Obvious object: to destroy the extensive anti-aircraft establishment there, pave the way for other raids on the naval bases. No results were announced but this week German civilians were evacuated...
...German air raiders now are coming back, after making a wide circle. . . . I can see puffs of anti-aircraft fire...