Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three cannon shells and 30 machine-gun bullets, with a seagull lodged in its carburetor intake. An Eagle reported: "Evading a flak, got into an uncontrolled spin, came out of it in a dive over a cluster of guns, opened fire from 200 yards, blew up an ammunition dump, pulled out of the dive, gunned army lorries and attacked a listening post on the way home. Had breakfast...
...went hysterical over saving waste paper and immediately were advised to quit and send it to the dump. We sacrificed much usable aluminum on a like drive, only to find that it was not suitable for airplanes. We had the tin-can bungle and the canceled postage-stamp fiasco. These panicky and snap drives have plainly got the people dubious on Washington advice...
...explosions and fires followed, then came more bursts of smoke from warehouses and piers and over in the corner of the city huge flames and thick black smoke billowed into the air as if the oil dump was on fire. In a short space we counted over 20 individual fires...
...dump-it-in-a-bucket method has not been approved by OCD for civilian defense workers. Reason: OCD thinks that U.S. citizens, confronted with a real air raid, might not have the necessary coolness for such an aggressive technique...
...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 60 bombers took part...