Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Doom in the South? At Stalingrad a Red Army correspondent found Russian soldiers walking abroad in the winter daylight, out of their subterranean shelters, commanding whole blocks of shattered buildings and recaptured streets where no German bullets flew. Now, he said, it was the encircled Germans who burrowed into cellars, turned into "bearded beasts" and subsisted on short rations of horse meat. Now it was the Germans who were pressed between Red troops on every side, as the Russians had been pressed between the Germans and the Volga...
LONDON--German planes, flying single and taking advantage of clouds hanging low over the English channel today made the most extensive daylight raid against Britain in weeks, hitting at least 10 towns and villages in the southern and southeastern coastal areas...
Instead, Nasi planes came diving out of the sun, machine-gunning and bombing confused merchantmen as they came. Aided by the perpetual daylight of the season, they came again and again on a 24-hour schedule...
...came from the Agricultural Marketing Administration, which was establishing food stockpiles on various Caribbean islands and helping to further a hop-skip-and-jump transportation route which makes use of schooners between the islands. But even some of the schooners, which can make the runs between the islands in daylight, had been machine-gunned by subs. And AMA had made fantastic and grievous mistakes: it sent 3,000 bags of sugar to Puerto Rico (where 400,000 tons are awaiting export); it ordered private exporters to move all flour from gulf ports, then set up its own flour stockpiles...
...Britain's fast, agile, twin Rolls-Royce Mosquito bomber has a wingspread of 54 ft. (comparable to the U.S. P-38 fighter). It carries four 20-mm. cannon and four machine guns, is used largely for daylight raids. The plane's wooden fuselage, designed to conserve Britain's metal supply, has under some circumstances proved less vulnerable to gunfire than light metal...