Word: droving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ships waiting to be searched for contraband saw them, and from the south over Duncansby Head and John O'Groat's, where British fighters engaged them. Two of their bombs hit close to Iron Duke, damaging but not sinking her. British fighting planes and anti-aircraft fire drove off these raiders, downing five. Britain saw that in this war Germany is not going to repeat the omission that so puzzled Admiral Jellicoe last time. The great battle bases of the British Fleet-Scapa Flow and Rosyth in the Firth of Forth (bombed last fortnight-will, doubtless be prime...
...this were not enough, an air raid alarm went off at 2 o'clock and German planes flew overhead. We were trapped helplessly on the boat. Fortunately some nearby English planes drove off the German raiders, but the incident certainly gave us a few disquieting moments...
Accompanied by Colonel General Wilhelm Keitel, Chief of the High Command of the Armed Forces, and Heinrich Himmler, Chief of Secret Police, Victor Hitler drove through the wreckage to a reviewing stand set up in the least damaged part of the city, the diplomatic sector. There he stood from 12:30 until 2:30 as picked troops goose-stepped past...
Last week war in Poland had its official end as Adolf Hitler flew to Warsaw. He arrived at the city, left it thoughtful. For what Adolf Hitler saw as he drove into town was a city which he, artist by ambition, architect of a Chancellery and an eagle's nest, had designed-a city of charred wrecks, broken windows, gutted streets, tram rails bent into tortured question marks...
...said Julien Bryan, "but that Germans slaughtered Polish civilians miles from military objectives. It wasn't a war against soldiers. It was a war against civilians. I arrived in Warsaw after most foreign correspondents had left. Each day I took a car, a camera, and an interpreter and drove out as near the front as I dared go. On September 15, two weeks after the invasion started, I went out to the suburbs on the German side of town...