Word: lullablitz
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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...last week the Lullablitz had lasted nearly a month. More jittery in their breathing spell than they had been under their worst postering, the British tried to guess what was cooking...
...Lullablitz. The dead calm in night bombings of Britain which began fortnight ago continued last week, until British nerves strained for bombs. The Daily Express called the pause a "Lullablitz." Weather was not good, but it was not bad enough to keep the R. A. F. grounded ; they struck at invasion ports in bomber squadrons protected by huge fighter escorts, and met scanty resistance. First the British thought perhaps the Germans paused because their oil supply was low; then they wondered whether the Nazis had taken a really sizable force to the Balkans and Sicily; then they suspected planes were...
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