Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boat Construction: Attacks on 13 yards, accounting for 80% of production. Hamburg (three yards) most severely, Kiel (three yards) and Vegesack all heavily damaged; Wilhelmshaven (considerably), Flensburg (lightly), Danzig (two yards), Bremen and Emden all negligibly...
...Prussia, Pomerania, Occupied Poland. It meant: 1) there is no haven in any part of Germany for bomb-sick Nazis, either by day (U.S.) or by night (R.A.F.) and 2) the German fighter force has been pushed farther & farther inland, its elasticity about gone. Some American bombs fell on Danzig, already bombed by the Red Air Force. The cost: 29 U.S. bombers, 91 German fighters...
...factories making planes, tanks, dyes, submarine parts, aircraft motors, artillery, ammunition. Russian four-motored bombers roared out of the dark ness over Poland to batter the power stations and railroad centers at Königsberg, in East Prussia; and the machine-tool plants, warehouses, chemical factories and shipyards at Danzig on the Baltic...
Militarily, the invasion was brilliantly conceived, effectively executed-despite some bumbles (see p. 14). But the world had looked for something more than military brilliance in North Africa. The oppressed peoples of Europe, from Dunkirk to Danzig, looked to North Africa for the hope and the pattern of freedom. The people of the U.S. and Britain looked there for the fulfillment of their proud assumption that they were the bearers and the protectors of freedom...
...Howard Atwood Kelly, 84, last of the four great physicians who headed Johns Hopkins Medical School's original faculty in 1889, died of heart disease last week. A few hours later the wife he married in Danzig in 1889, Laetitia Bredow, died in a coma at the same hospital. One of their nine children, Dr. Edmund Bredow Kelly, now somewhere in the Pacific with Hopkins Base Hospital Unit No. 18, is the only descendant bequeathed to medicine by any of Hopkins' famed Big Four.* His young grandson and namesake was killed in action in Africa...