Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this desperate game audacity paid fat returns-or ended in disaster. It was audacity which led General Nikolai Vatutin, one of Russia's ablest exponents of blitz warfare, to strike west of Kiev with tanks and horsemen, without adequate infantry or cannon. The muddy roads delayed supplies and reinforcements, but the opportunity to deal the Wehrmacht a finishing blow was too tempting to forgo. Zhitomir fell (TIME, Nov. 22). The cavalry corps which took it seemed poised for a raid into prewar Poland...
...that last great night of London's blitz, some 300 twin-and-single-engined German planes dropped some 400 tons of bombs. Last week the R.A.F. sent 900-1,000 four-engined bombers to Berlin and the important chemical center of Ludwigshafen. Upon the two cities fell some 2,500 tons of incendiary and high-explosive bombs, each bomb more efficient and terrible than those of 1940. "The largest force of heavy bombers yet dispatched to Germany" earmarked at least 350 two-ton blockbusters for Berlin alone. As in London in 1941, Berlin's fires gorged themselves...
Died. Admiral Koichi Shiozawa, 60, top-ranking Japanese naval constructor, early experimenter with blitz warfare against civilians; of an acute pancreas ailment; in Tokyo...
...night the alert lasted only half an hour. But one heavy bomb plumbed into a crowded dance hall and milk-bar. When the dust of the blast had settled, the district all around looked to eyewitnesses "like a battlefield," recalled the horrors of the blitz and jarred Londoners out of their recent tendency to ignore air-raid alarms...
Photographs of the "blitz" which destroyed buildings in Paris in 1871 in devastation comparable to the present war--the only such pictures in existence--have been given to Harvard University by John T. Spaulding '90, of Boston...