Word: pilsener
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attacks increased in weight, the cost rose. In night raids on Pilsen and Mannheim, the R.A.F. lost 55 bombers-nearly 10% of the raiding force. The R.A.F. is pleased when losses run as low as 3% to 5%, as they recently have. It begins to worry when losses approach 10%, the officially accepted dividing line between profitable and wasteful operations. At points which the Germans chose to defend strongly, they demonstrated last week that their ack-ack and fighter protection was sufficient to cause the R.A.F. real concern...
...R.A.F. raids of the week: aircraft plants (Stuttgart, Rostock), shipyards and docks (Hamburgh, St.-Nazaire, Le Havre, Kristiansand, Boulogne), munitions plants (Pilsen), key political point (Vichy-where leaflets were scattered...
...that the bully boys of his Air Force were in no position to tangle with the R.A.F. on its vast sweeps across the Channel. While the Luftwaffe husbanded its strength, the R.A.F. slugged Nazi bases from Le Havre on up to the Baltic. They also reached 700 miles to Pilsen, Bohemia, where they bombed the huge Skoda works...
...Czecho-Slovakia a workman called "Old Vacek" ran a crane at the great Skoda munitions works at Pilsen. One day a big ladle of molten lead being carried on Vacek's crane suddenly flipped over. It happened that a posse of German Army commissioners were passing beneath: 14 of them were burned to death. Old Vacek did not try to pretend accident. He dived out of his cab, 60 feet head first to the concrete floor...
Last week the Moscow radio reported that hundreds of Germans had been killed in an explosion in a Czech munitions plant. The next day British Broadcasting Corp. elaborated, said that the explosion was in the great Skoda munitions works at Pilsen, that afterwards hundreds of German troops had been rushed to the plant. Despite the troops, said BBC, another explosion ruined the power plant at the works...