Word: blitz
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...This Is Blitz (Canadian documentary of blitz warfare, its cause & cure; TIME, April...
...enough for larger flights to operate. From the southern English coast Britons watched them wheeling over, then heard from the coast of France the intermittent crash of their bombs. It was one of the heaviest raids the invasion coast had ever stood. To R.A.F. men who think a good blitz is likely to be more effective than a second front in Europe, it was also one of the most significant...
...pilots were glad to see them. Eight RA.F. fighters were shot down (and nine German), but the price was low. More important was the fact that the Germans, after weeks of token fighter resistance, now had plenty of pursuit in the air. To the R.A.F. that meant that the blitz was beginning to help their Rus-sian ally as well as hurting their German enemy in his industrial and military establishments. They were sure that some of the fighters they met over France came from Russia. They were also sure a lot more would have to be pulled...
...against a foe that more than matched him in numbers, was well equipped, had had battle training, could not be surprised and was ready to counter-push the moment Hitler pushed. He had to alter his tactics accordingly. He did not open up this time with a massive blitz...
...Home Guard had not always been respectable. It rose like a garish, un-British emanation from the bomb rubble of 1940's blitz. In those days its members practiced slitting throats with cheese cutters on gloomy Sunday mornings, reached out eager hands for nonexistent tommy guns, concocted tin-can explosives in the basement and took a desperate delight in the macabre techniques of Spanish Civil War guerrillas. But by last week the Home Guard had dressed ranks and counted off: on its second birthday, King George VI himself, the trade-mark of British character, became the Home Guard...