Word: blitz
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...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...
...London blitz damaged but did not destroy the Tussaud museum on Marylebone Road. In the ruinous days of September 1940, a bomb blasted two of the museum's rooms into reportedly picturesque and possibly symbolic confusion: Hitler lurched on his beam-ends, his head chipped to its core. Göring's resplendent tunic was ripped to shreds and his countless medals strewn on the floor. Goebbels lay on his back, staring at nothing. But firm and unshaken, the blue eyes of Winston Churchill gazed blinkless at the scene...
...Allied invasion of North Africa; 6) the Red Army's defense of Sevastopol; 7) the Dieppe raid; 8) the boarding of the Nazi prison ship Altmark and the rescue of its prisoners; 9) the British Eighth Army's drive from El Alamein; 10) the London fire blitz...
...writer was two and a half years a correspondent in Berlin and Bern-and a third was largely responsible for the New York Times' News of the Week in Review. A new writer in Army & Navy was in Warsaw for the New York Herald Tribune when the Germans blitzed into Poland-stuck it out there after the Government had fled-was one of the last four American correspondents to escape. Still another new writer (World Battlefronts) was sent to London by the A.P. just in time to cover the Blitz and the Battle of Britain, later transferred...