Word: blenheims
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blenheim reconnaissance plane skimmed in and out of the overcast above the North Sea one midnight last week chasing a Nazi seaplane. The seaplane dodged into a cloud. The Blenheim followed, lost touch with its quarry, emerged suddenly into a clear patch over the sea just off Egersund, Norway...
...Cooper's requirements when he first came to me were that the house be unpretentious, Bermudian and un-Hollywood. Lest liberal-minded fans be alienated by visions of Blenheim or Buckingham Palace, I enclose a photograph...
...dropped with them and went to work on Dutch machine-gun nests. Next came 800 fully equipped infantrymen under Lieut. Colonel von Koltitz-followed by several hundred more. Landed on the field in airplanes, they spread out, seized bridges near by, reputedly shot down every one of eight British Blenheim bombers sent over to blast them out. Three days later, when the armored units of the German Army caught up with them, they had the situation perfectly in hand...
...roared down the coastline smashing at docks & shipping from Norway to the Spanish border, pounding the big guns at Cap Gris Nez, blasting barges at Calais. As the week advanced, they gave the French ports their worst battering of the war. Diving through a howling southwester, a squadron of Blenheim bombers poured their loads into Boulogne, starting fires at the rate of one a minute. At Brest, new Fairey Albacore planes of the Fleet Air Arm plunged through a heavy anti-aircraft barrage to score direct hits on small German naval units at anchor...
Striking at Nazi troop and supply movements, the R. A. F. swooped over the German-held French port of Lorient, shattering two transports and killing 3,000 Nazi soldiers. Off Trondheim, Blenheim bombers of the Coastal Command fired a German supply ship, set two more ablaze in the North...