Word: flak
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Leipzig, fifth largest German city, newly industrialized with evacuated war plants and crowded with refugees from Berlin, the bombers poured more than 1,500 tons of explosive and fire. No night fighters met them; Leipzig had only searchlights and flak. Then, while bombs were falling on Leipzig, a large force of swift Mosquito bombers flashed in on Berlin...
...early night was carpeted with clouds. Beneath, within and over them, flak burst in fitful fire. It was bitter cold. The big, dark planes were sheathed in frost; the men inside them huddled freezing over instruments and guns. The sky was crowded with the ghostly bombers, growling toward Berlin...
Nights of Destruction. The human scene was much like London's. In the factories, the offices, the homes, the streets the people heard the Lancasters, Stirlings and Halifaxes, the first grumble of the flak barrage, and hurried to the shelters...
...cost 60. Percentage of casualties had gone up to over 10%. No matter how precious the targets, the flyers and the fleets could not stand such losses. The Germans had come up with new rocket-bearing fighters which could lurk outside the range of U.S. .50-caliber machine guns. Flak was getting thicker...
...Flak got five R.A.F. Wellingtons over Berlin the night of Nov. 14, three years ago, and a pilot parachuted into the Teltow Canal near Tempelhof Airport. Middle-aged civilian wardens fished him out, escorted him to a police station. The police gave him hot Ersatzkaffee. The prisoner made a face and everyone laughed...