Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enclosed photo shows the Matford Plant of the Ford Motor Co. of France in flames after a recent Royal Air Force bombing raid...
...Ford Motor Co. Dearborn, Mich...
...Santa Fe station in down town Los Angeles another group of 500 aliens and Nisei (all men, as were the Japs who went by motor) boarded a special 13-car Southern Pacific train for Manzanar. A few impassive-faced Japanese women stood on the platform, handed up pop bottles through the open windows, waved good-by with composure. One was a white girl, clutching the hand of a small, wide-eyed, yellow-skinned...
Next morning three British motor gunboats-about the same size as the E-boats but slightly slower, more heavily gunned and carrying no torpedoes-caught an E-boat off the German base at Ijmuiden on the Dutch coast and left it sinking. In another engagement a British vessel fought off three E-boats until its ammunition was gone, damaged one, retired. A squadron of Spitfire fighters sighted four E-boats, one of them crippled from a previous clash. The Germans put up a screen of flak, but the British planes dived right through it, opening up with their...
...mine fields, swung into firing position four miles from their objective. Overhead British bombers, roaring on to blast two Axis airdromes, dropped flares over the city of Rhodes which lit it brilliantly. Their target clear, the guns of the fleet in 20 minutes flung 20 tons of shells at motor-torpedo-boat bases, docks and factories. Startled Italian defenders took ten minutes to man their anti-aircraft guns and shore batteries, were still firing into the sky (thinking they were being bombed) when the attacking ships retired. Not a plane was lost, not a rating injured, the British reported...