Word: croydon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Among London's hard hit districts (Croydon, Woolwich, Greenwich, Orpington, Wandsworth, Lewisham, Beckenham, West Ham, Camberwell and Lambeth) Croydon got it worst. Only 211 of its citizens were killed but 75% of its houses were damaged or destroyed (Coventry's percentage in the 1940 blitz...
...CROYDON Roy Alexander, aviation expert, just back from two months with the American Air Forces in England...
Paddy Finucane also had a lot of luck. His plane had been badly shot up only once. He limped for awhile, but not from enemy bullets: he fell off a wall at Croydon, while celebrating an R.A.F. victory...
...hazy afternoon in 1937 a low-wing monoplane dropped on Croydon Aerodrome, London, in a landing which Aeroplane described as "the bounceless plop of a mashed potato." The plane had the flag of the Rising Sun painted on its white flank; it was named The Divine Wind. Its pilot, a 24-year-old wizard of endurance named Masaaki Iinuma, had just flown all the way from Tokyo (via Formosa, Indo-China, India, Iraq, Greece, Italy, France) in four days. Aeroplane, remarking that the crowd of greeters at the field nearly trampled underfoot half a dozen very small Japanese girls...
Werra parachuted into British hands last September when his Messerschmitt was shot down over Croydon Airport. Interned in Hyde Park, the 26-year-old airman was surprised while burrowing his way out, shipped off to a Scottish prison camp. There he promptly escaped again, was picked up after six days when he tried to board a boat for Eire...