Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aerial preparation began many days before the 24-hour blow at the coast. Part of this pattern of power was the R.A.F.'s series of night raids on Berlin and other German targets in the preceding fortnight, on Munich and Mannheim-Ludwigshafen last week. So was a strong daylight raid by U.S. Fortresses on Stuttgart. The immediate purpose of these raids was local destruction, but they also furthered the campaign to whittle away German fighter forces and pin them down far from the coasts...
...DAYLIGHT ON SATURDAY-J. B. Priestley-Harper...
Author Priestley's best-selling manipulations of sweetness and light (The Good Companions) have neither closed his mind nor cloyed his large public. Daylight on Saturday is a surprisingly successful blend of his new realism and his old sentiment. It reveals a picture of wartime England that will entertain the lighthearted, interest the thoughtful...
Priestley Dramatics. Daylight on Saturday covers only a brief interval of time: two weeks in October...
With this, his own brand of diplomacy, Eaker broke down British reserve, made of his R.A.F. colleagues not only willing allies but firm friends. British skepticism of U.S. daylight-bombing theories was overcome. Day or night bombing long ago ceased to be an issue between the U.S. and British air leaders-in Eaker's own words: "There is no conflict between day bombing and night bombing, each being part of a completed pattern and supplementing the whole...