Word: attacked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
When it comes, men on the ground and men in the air will work together in the tactical teams that both sides have trained to develop. While artillery is preparing for the advance of infantry, low-flying attack ships will sweep from their airdromes in great flights to batter relieving troops with machine-gun fire, bomb supply trains in the rear areas...
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...
...days the War had almost everything that in older and slower wars was more painfully and with more suffering acquired. It had a victory-the march of the German Army to the gates of Warsaw (see p. 18). It had a daring raid-the attack of British airmen on Germany's naval base (see p. 20). It had a cautious advance as French troops fought on German soil for the first time in 70 years (see p. 16). It had its casualties, refugees, wrecks, ruins. It had its propaganda ministries (see p. 25) and it had its first peace...
...knew his audience. Cheering workmen wanted to hear of the victory. He told them: "German arms on land and in the air have achieved what has been considered unbelievable." They wanted to hear that the Westwall was safe. He said so: "If they should be mad enough to attack our western line, streams of blood will flow." They wanted something to laugh over: "Old Chamberlain said he'd like to live to see the day when Hitler would be removed. Well, he has reached Methuselah's age, and I'm not sure he'll attain...