Word: crater
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Britain could also afford some air assistance. British planes were said to be taking part in raids on Porto Edda, Tirana and Durazzo in Albania, and last week this British craft-probably carrier-based Blackburns-bombed Naples to give the Italian foot its first stings of war. The glowing crater of Vesuvius lighted the way to blacked-out Naples...
Beyond either laughter or tears, and incredibly British, was a notice posted at a golf course outside London: Emergency Rule: Players may pick out of any bomb crater, dropping ball not nearer hole without penalty. Ground littered with debris may be treated as ground under repair...
...bombers laid eggs on the outskirts, carrot-topped, bespectacled little Hubert Renfro Knickerbocker (Hearst's International News Service) danced with excitement on a roof in Fleet Street. But on Dover's cliffs a bomb fell three yards away from Cameraman James Gemmell (British Paramount News), gouged a crater 20 feet deep, failed to explode. Frank Butler (I. N. S.) was hit by falling machine-gun cartridge cases, unharmed...
Nobody knew that an unexploded mine's fuse, jarred by the impact, was at work. Four and a half minutes after the Nazi airmen died, it set off its charge. Next instant there was a crater where the wrecked Heinkel had been. Surrounding houses were smashed flat. A baby carriage hung from a treetop...
...Casualties were a middle-aged Clacton couple, killed in their sleep when the bomber fell, and 162 curious townsfolk injured when she exploded. None was hurt who obeyed the rules, took cover in cellars, lay doggo until the all clear signal. A raid shelter a few yards from the crater was unharmed. While firemen and volunteers were clearing away the ruins, three babies were born in a half-smashed Clacton maternity home. They will have company. Despite the crash, Britain's Home Office is continuing to evacuate children from London to Clacton-on-Sea. And the Clacton hotel operators...