Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy's destroyers based in World War I. But it is 200 miles farther, out & back, and in wartime at sea every 100 miles counts. The distances from Berehaven and Cobh (Queenstown) in Eire to the southern trade lane (approach to Cardiff and Bristol as well as to Liverpool) are even more disparate when laid against the extra miles the R. N. must plow from Portland, Devonport or even Pembroke...
...Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Coventry and other Midlands towns got smacked sharply but sporadically. So did Scotland. The character of the raiding was definitely more psychological than material. Some raiders swooped to machine-gun trains and villages, but not where British fighting planes could catch them...
...lanes north and west of Ireland. Last fortnight's claim of 327,000 tons in one week was upped to 490,000 tons in ten days, a good portion by Nazi bombers such as harpooned the Empress. The disappearance of heavy long-range bombers from Britain except over Liverpool and other west-coast ports revealed the latest Nazi stratagem-to add planes to U-boats in heavy autumn offensive against Britain's oversea supply lines...
...manhunting Huns made the most of it. In the fighter-bombers and fast, light bombers (Junkers 88) to which they resorted when their bigger death crates proved too easy meat for the R. A. F.'s fighter defense, they swarmed in over London. They also visited Liverpool, Manchester and other inland towns, to whose inhabitants the bombing of London is only horrid hearsay. Most of them stayed at great altitude because their converted Messerschmitts, with a red line painted on the windscreen for a "bomb sight," were no good for precision work and, anyway, the purpose of their "total...
London had its 200th raid alarm. Liverpool had its 145th since Aug. 1. Serious spot damage fell upon Liverpool docks, factories, stores, office buildings. People flocked into the Mersey tunnel, risking pneumonia. The industrial Midlands came in for 24 hours of "hammer blows," but a correspondent who had just toured from Newcastle and York through the Midlands reported their production capacity virtually untouched. To raise morale and production, honor badges were issued to aircraft workers who stayed on the job throughout raids...