Word: blenheims
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Only danger was that some literal-minded OWI newcomer might some day refer to the defeat of the French armies at Blenheim by Austria's Prince Eugene, might label it a World War II* development, might thus thoroughly mystify the U.S. public...
...first time the Tokyo radio claimed control of the air in Burma. The Allies' Blenheim bombers had nearly all been shot down, Tokyo gloated, and only Spitfires and U.S. P-4Os were left. Whether or not this was true, heavy Japanese air reinforcements seemed to be flowing in from the conquered East Indies. At week's end a massive Jap force- 60 bombers and 20 fighters-blasted an Allied airdrome somewhere back of the fighting fronts. First reports had only two Japs shot down...
...first British Hurricane fighters and Blenheim bombers reported over the Indies joined U.S. and Dutch Air Forces in attacks on Jap-laden barges, transports and warships. Bombs smashed two cruisers and five transports, spread death in the barges. Hurricane pilots, probably fresh from Singapore, made six flights in a day from Palembang's airdrome, retired to Java only when the airdrome was lost...
...Blenheim and Waterloo. To men standing with their rain-soaked kit, conscious that in a few hours they might be dead or maimed, those words gave a little more pleasant feeling...
Here if anywhere was Britain's second front to help the Russians. Here if anywhere was Britain's chance to knock the Eyeties out of the war. Churchill and his Cabinet, after spouting about a Blenheim and a Waterloo, would very likely stand or fall by what happened. Failure here would put the whole Empire into an awful funk. Even the U.S. might shy back out if Britain came another cropper here. The Imperial General Staff, shaken around on the eve of this attack (see p. 22), would be in a pretty bad stew to find a next...