Word: balloons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raid defenses, though magnificent in their stubbornness, were strained to the very limit. No defense has ever been designed which can stop night air attacks. Last week Britain did the best it could with what it had. What it had were three fluid fortresses: the R. A. F., the balloon barrage, antiaircraft batteries...
...from an old woman who thanked them cheerily, told them that Hitler's war had saved her business. Army men, who got to Dover first, had all the girls, so newspapermen spent their evenings playing ping-pong in the hotel basement. Their favorite character was a bloated barrage balloon which they named Sefton Delmer. after a 252-lb. reporter for the London Daily Express. Shot down in flames one day last week, Delmer was their only casualty. Few hours later, Delmer II slowly ascended into the twilight above Dover...
...Nazi motor torpedo boats darted into a Channel convoy of 20 small coastal ships, sank three. The convoy continued westward down the Channel. About 9 a.m., 50 Junkers dive bombers, with Messerschmitt fighters swarming above them, swooped out of the morning sun. Some of the ships were towing barrage balloons which the Germans had to shoot down before they could dive-bomb. Anti-aircraft fire and squadrons of angry British Spitfires and Hurricanes hurtled up from the British coast. The sky spun crazily with dogfights, plummeting wrecks, cripples smoking off for home. At noon an even larger formation of Germans...
...formations. They said they smashed the runway at the Bristol airport, the Pobjoy airplane-engine works at Rochester, an explosives factory at Faversham, docks and shipyards at Newcastle, Sheerness, Chatham. On the third day they staged another big show, beginning at 7:30 a.m., on Dover's repaired balloon barrage...
...which looked like a Nazi raider spiraling down in flames, several other faint specks, some dark streaks that might have been smoke. Reporters who had seen the air battle from the cliffs, two days earlier, were of the opinion that the smoke streaks came from fragments of a burning balloon...