Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...must to all men, came in a bursting bomb to a king of whom most people had never heard. Through London, last fortnight, news finally reached the world that King John Sydney Clunies-Ross IV of the Cocos Islands* had died last August, of shock, following a Japanese air raid...
Fire in the Wind. Less than 48 hours later, nearly 500 more B-29s returned. This time their target was farther north-the heart of modern Tokyo. While the fires from Thursday's raid still blazed, the planes dropped another 4,000 tons of gasoline jelly on the Marunouchi ("inside the castle walls") district. Said returning pilots: "Their searchlights picked us up at the coast, guided us in and took us right out to sea again . . . the toughest mission of my career. . . . Lots of Japanese came up at us right through their own flak. They were shooting down their...
...bright, moonlit night when antiaircraft guns around Yontan airstrip in west central Okinawa burst into their barking din. A brisk enemy air raid was on. Suddenly, to the amazement of Marine pilots and mechanics, a Japanese twin-engined bomber, its wheels still retracted, glided in and scraped down the runway to a fairish belly landing. This was the debut of the Giretsu branch of Japan's fantastic suicide warriors...
...veteran reporter (who saw Poland, the Low Countries and France invaded, and once rode in a 6-29 on a raid on Japan) flew with a U.S.A.A.F. captain to Saint-Nazaire to cover the scheduled surrender of some hard-to-convince Nazis. Landing at a likely-looking airstrip near the town, they were met by a heel-clicking group of German officers. One of the Germans identified himself as the "commanding officer," and promptly unconditionally surrendered the entire force of 27,000-including the Luftwaffe...
...disappearance was the work of the Nazis. When it became clear that Weimar would fall, an alarmed Nazi Gauleiter ordered the poets' bodies taken to Jena. Two unnamed German civilians-a doctor of philosophy and a lawyer-carried out the order, concealed the coffins in an air-raid bunker beneath a hospital. Then the U.S. Army neared Jena. This time the Gauleiter ordered SS men to destroy the bodies so that they would not fall into the hands of the "American barbarians." But the bodies had disappeared. So had the two Germans in charge of them...