Word: blitz
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...since the blitz had London taken so savage a beating. At dawn, at dusk, in fog, sunlight and darkness the robombs roared across the Channel, streaked through ack-ack and balloon cable defenses, pounded more of the city into debris...
...impact of the Germans' robomb blitz on the lives of London's working people has not been told by the daily communiqué's "Damage and casualties were caused." This is the story told to TIME Correspondent Sherry Mangan by a London toolmaker in a defense plant. (Place names are necessarily fictitious...
...English people are tired," said McIlwain. "They thought the Germans had finished harassing the civilian population, and the recent robot bombing was a serious psychological blow. But they're taking it just as they took the blitz...
Bumped Heads. By night, the London householder was governed by the menace. Thousands went to the deep public shelters. In thousands of backyards the Anderson shelter, neglected since the bad days of the blitz, had been patched up, its water-soaked earthen floor resurfaced...
...noticeable, not yet serious, but there was increasing absence from factories and offices. No one was surprised at Winston Churchill's recital of casualties: 4,735 killed, 14,000 seriously hurt, 17,000 dwellings razed in the first six weeks of flying bombs. (Worst six weeks of the blitz, 10,122 killed, 14,969 seriously injured...