Word: eyewitnesser
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a German newsman had come an "eyewitness story" which, if true, revealed one of the most devastating attacks British shipping had yet suffered. He was aboard a German surface raider (from its speed and gun-power, probably a pocket battleship), cruising the waters between Madeira and the Azores. Said...
Next day more than 100 survivors of lost Allied ships landed in Madeira. Their story was not so bad for the British as the German eyewitness', but it was bad enough. Nine ships, they said, had been sunk in half an hour. Six of the others had made Madeira...
From Bulgaria last week CBS Correspondent Leigh White poured out a bagful of new horror stories, gathered from eyewitness accounts of Rumania's fortnight-old Iron Guard rebellion. He told of Green Shirt ruffians ranging through the ghetto of Bucharest, firing shops and synagogues, shooting Jews and Christians who...
The question last week was whether a decisive battle had been fought in the Mediterranean. The Italians had already made extravagant claims of vast damage to a British convoy but eyewitness reports finally gave a fairly coherent account of the action. It added a new chapter to the war of...
The first eyewitness book published in the. U. S. about Britain in its recent months of trial by bomb last week appeared. It was Report on England: November, 1940 (Simon & Schuster; $1.50), expanded from a series of newspaper stories written by Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, editor of Manhattan's afternoon...