Word: raid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legend -a brigadier general at 36, a major general six months later. In England, LeMay decided that too many of his B-17s were missing enemy targets because they zigzagged out of the way of heavy antiaircraft fire. He clamped a cigar in his jaw, led the next raid over Saint Nazaire, held his plane on course up to the bomb drop through murderous ack-ack for a grim seven minutes. Next day he issued a flat order: no more evasive action on the final bombing run. Plane damage went up, but results went up more...
Neither radio nor television has yet produced anything to match such notable, on-the-spot broadcasts of World War II as the round-the-clock reports from the Normandy beachhead, the liberation of Paris, or the running account of a bombing raid on Berlin. But radiomen were taking considerable satisfaction from the surveys which showed a sharp climb in radio news audiences (up 18% over last year). With listeners hungry for early, accurate news reports from the Korean front, many a television owner was beginning to turn back to his radio again...
...raid warning system gives you time, get off the street and into a shelter. If no shelter is near, get away from windows and inflammable material (especially your car with its tank of incendiary gasoline), and drop to the ground. If you are in a tall building, go to the middle of the floor or, better still, to the ground floor or basement. If you are at home, go to the basement...
...sewers for refuge until the city pointed out that a rainstorm would drown them all, suggested three old beer storage caves instead. Boston got RFC backing for its old plan to build a garage beneath the Boston Common, on the grounds that if would be a wonderful air raid shelter too. And New York's Mayor O'Dwyer wanted to spend $450 million for civilian shelters...
Meanwhile, B-29s continued to attack the enemy's factories.* Pilots carrying out a follow-up raid on a big oil refinery at Wonsan (one of the principal fuel sources of the North Korean tanks), which had been bombed by B-29s the day before, reported the refinery "a twisted mass of steel." In three big strikes, B-29s had dropped 1,300 tons of bombs on the Chosen Nitrogen Chemical Co. at Hungnam, 126 miles north of the 38th parallel. The Air Force claimed to have severely damaged at least a third of the "buildings, laboratories, power plants...