Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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German bombings may leave the good people of Birmingham, England comparatively unmoved, but if there is one thing that brings out a cold rage ... it is having their first-class football team, Aston Villa, claimed by Liverpool, as in your issue...
...chopping at Italian supply lines all week. A submarine (British or Greek) sank three Italian merchantmen in the Adriatic. Next day another Italian ship was torpedoed off the Yugoslav coast. An armed merchantman was sunk after a running fight in the same waters. The submarine Thetis which foundered off Liverpool in 1939, now raised and renamed the Thunderbolt, torpedoed an Italian submarine cruising on the surface...
...Liverpool, Bristol, Southampton, Ports mouth, Plymouth, London...
After Coventry they smote Birmingham, Southampton and Plymouth. After these, Liverpool and Bristol-west-coast ports through which the supplies that insular Britain needs from the U. S. and elsewhere must pass. After these, last week, night-flying Germans again dropped crushing loads of explosive on Birmingham and on Bristol, on Plymouth, and on Manchester, the cotton and textile centre even greater in wealth and prestige than any other British city except London, having a ship canal of its own to bring in imports, a surrounding web of heavy industry, and important rail connections. Next followed two smashing new assaults...
LONDON, FRIDAY--German bombers pounded Liverpool and two other towns in northwestern England with hundreds of high explosive and incendiary bombs for hours last night and early today...