Word: danzig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Posing as a Flemish worker on vacation from Danzig, Artist Hélion next boarded a train to Cologne, got through two examinations of his false papers, mixed with a friendly carload of Nazi soldiers. He sneaked across the border to Belgium Then by stealing rides on trucks, Hélion reached the French frontier, crawled through vegetable gardens at dusk, evading patrols, and reached Paris...
...small, the bombing of Berlin was no flash in the pan. The Russians were back over German-held territory night after night; they had slammed Warsaw, Stettin, Danzig, Königsberg and Budapest before the week...
With what she could spare from her southern front, Russia smashed at Germany with her long-range aircraft, sent some on round-trip missions of 1,800 miles. Königsberg, Danzig and Stettin felt their fury, but what pleased Russians most was the objective farthest from home...
Three days later the R.A.F. was back in the saddle with its farthest-ranging daylight raid of the war, a daring assault on Danzig, some 800 miles from Britain. Squadrons of giant four-motored Lancasters swept down on the former Free City in the early evening, while it was still daylight, to dump heavy bomb cargoes on submarine-building yards and other targets. Other squadrons simultaneously attacked Flensburg, another U-boat spawning ground at the Danish-German frontier. Unofficial statements that three bombers missing from the operation constituted a loss of less than 5% was indication that something over...
...projectiles are at least as old as the early 19th Century. In 1804 Major General Sir William Congreve developed a rocket projectile with a range of nearly two miles. A British fleet fired salvos of Congreve's rockets at Boulogne in 1806, at Copenhagen in 1807 and at Danzig in 1813, causing great fires...