Word: germanic
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actual extent of Allied and German flights in the war's first week no one on the west shore of the Atlantic could tell. From official communiques, however, it appeared that except for Germany's Polish push, the one big show of the week was put on by England...
...Before German pursuit could get into the air the raiders had crawled back into the overcast and headed for home, after a lively half hour or so with every machine gun and anti-aircraft cannon in the area whanging away at them. Next day Britain announced that severe damage had been done to a battleship lying alongside the mole at Brunsbüttel, that hits had been made on a second man-of-war off Wilhelmshaven. Few days later an unconfirmed dispatch from Switzerland said the 26,000-ton Gneisenau had been sunk. Germany denied it, said its anti-aircraft...
...British bombing attack on the German base-island of Sylt off Denmark's southwest corner. Obvious object: to destroy the extensive anti-aircraft establishment there, pave the way for other raids on the naval bases. No results were announced but this week German civilians were evacuated...
...Like the pamphleteering flights, British and French observation planes ranged over Germany, while German reconnaissance crews looked over French terrain to get information for Nazi intelligence maps. No losses were reported and the lie was given to German boasts that no hostile airplane could cross Nazi anti-aircraft defenses...
...were compelled to conclude this week that Britain and France, and also Germany, were withholding their main air-power for definite reasons. Allied reasons apparently were: 1) to wait for the U. S. to clarify its neutrality stand, on which Allied plane replacements depend heavily; 2) reluctance to invite German "atrocities"; 3) delay until objectives on the Western Front were truly defined and prepared; 4) delay in the hope that the German people could be disaffected from A. Hitler by the War of Pamphlets...