Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bloody Slow. On that night some 200 R.A.F. planes attacked the Renault truck and tank works at Billancourt, near Paris. It was a "saturation raid" of a type soon to become familiar to the Germans in the homeland. What Harris had done was to mass bombers on a scale never at tempted by his predecessors. He was soon to do it on a scale never possible to the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain...
...Germany is still less than one-tenth of the R.A.F. tonnage. But the American contribution will surely increase as more and bigger bombers arrive in Britain. Last week the Americans staged their biggest offensive yet against St. Nazaire, Rennes and La Pallice. The number of planes in the raid was unannounced. (The highest previous announced total was 133 planes.) And, according to U.S. testimony, the precision bombing of the American forces is more effective, ton for ton, than the saturation bombing of the R.A.F. Another, perhaps more important factor: the phenomenal bags of German fighters (American bombers operating from Britain...
...were carried from the streets with pulverized glass and cement ground into their cheeks. A department store was in flames. Housewives caught table-setting were driven to emergency wards to have chunks of their own glass and dishes dug from their flesh. Nineteen hours later the town's raid squads, plus soldiers and ATS girls on leave, were still digging for bodies, live & dead, in the debris...
...This raid was only one of many hundreds of tip-&-run raids. The same day another coastal town was hit. England's Atlantic City, Brighton, had nearly a hundred raids. The Germans choose misty days and they swoop out of the clouds, sometimes with their engines switched off, spray the town with bullets, dump their bombs and are off before the ack-ack is effective...
While the British-heavies were grounded, the R.A.F.'s sensational new bomber plane, the twin-engined, plywood Mosquito, stung the Reich by day & night with swift hit-&-run raids. On three successive nights last week Mosquitoes bombed Berlin by brightest moonlight; they made six raids against the Reich capital within eight days. From all these raids not a plane was lost; it was not until the sixth raid that Berlin gunners even scored a hit on a Mosquito. The plane they winged came back to England, flying at treetop height, with one motor shot...