Word: brighton
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This raid was only one of many hundreds of tip-&-run raids. The same day another coastal town was hit. England's Atlantic City, Brighton, had nearly a hundred raids. The Germans choose misty days and they swoop out of the clouds, sometimes with their engines switched off, spray the town with bullets, dump their bombs and are off before the ack-ack is effective...
Random Sowing. Bombs and bullets do strange things when dropped and fired at random. In Brighton an army eleven was playing cricket against the local police. Lieut. G. W. Wood was bowling when a bomb hit the playing green. "I found myself blown some distance away," he said. The chief constable, waiting to bat, threw himself down and an iron girder fell across his neck...
Stand up there on the ramp behind the press-box. Cast your eyes over that magnificent panorama of baseball, football, and softball fields. Then, gaze towards the Field House. Land, land, land. All the way to the fences and off into the purple haze of Brighton it stretches. What a nightmare for Henry George...
Terrible Names, and All. A year later he was in England again, despondent at hearing from his mother "only once in two or three months." He sent her curt post cards ("Brighton, Eng. Dear Mama: -This is England's great shore resort for poor people. That explains my being here."). He worked on his novel, resolved to dedicate it to "the best and truest friend I have ever had - the one person who has given love, comfort and understanding to my lonely and disordered life...
...list of men accepted from this vicinity so far are: Nishan Atamian and Henry R. DeForest, Arlington; Everett W. Clark, Melrose; Louis E. Devolder and Henry L. Johnson, Boston; George Harrison, Newton Centre; Frank V. King, Medford; Richard C. Morrison. Brighton; Martin S. Morton, Cambridge; Melvin H. Parker, Irving L. Wallens, and Raymond Zindle, Brookline; Gerald B. Stratton, E. Haverhill; and Frank W. Weeks, Fitchburg...