Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever was up, the R. A. F.'s growing invasion-busting offensive was out to stop it before it got started. Escorted by fast, hard-hitting Hurricanes and Spitfires, Blenheims of the Bomber Command struck in broad daylight at docks and shipping in Flushing, Antwerp, Dunkirk, Boulogne, Calais. At night even stronger formations coventrized Hanover two nights in a row, pouring explosives and incendiaries into factories and oil stores. More patrols swept the coast constantly from Scandinavia to southern France, looking for trouble. Berlin obliquely if mendaciously admitted the weight of the raids by claiming...
...bombers were protected by overwhelming escorts of fighters, indicating that the British had well observed the German losses when the Luftwaffe risked thinly guarded bombers. Their targets were, over & over, the invasion ports and communications. The British did not have long-range fighters to accompany bombers on distant daylight raids into Germany. Nor did they let their African successes blind them to the dangers of invasion. "We must all be prepared," said Winston Churchill, "to meet gas attacks, parachute attacks and glider attacks with constancy, forethought and practiced skill...
Greene's room in the Savoy hotel made an excellent observation tower during the period of the daylight raids. Looking toward the Thames one day, he saw a number of black streaks shoot from the bellies of a flight of German bombers. They struck close together near the terminus of a bridge, and the whole region "lifted up into an enormous cone that showered debris for blocks around...
...bold daylight sweep by British pilots wrestling air initiative from Germany followed announcement of devastating raids extending from Dusseldorf, Germany, to Bordeaux, France, Tuesday night, the biggest and most extensive raids of the past two weeks...
...blistering Channel coast the story was not quite so derisive. For last week the British gave even Hermann Göring something to think about. In full daylight 50 bombers, escorted by "over 100" fighters (some correspondents said there were more like 500 fighters), undertook Britain's first mass daylight raid on German bases. On succeeding days the British continued daylight raids and their fighters reported machinegunning Germans in trenches near the Channel. The British evidently felt that the time had come to take the initiative...