Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between them. . . . Inside it is hot-fire is spreading nearer, floors are glowing with heat and about to collapse. . . . Across the street is the Air Ministry, the Ministry of Goring, protected by a thick stone wall. . . . The building is burning and we cannot enter it. The gigantic air-raid shelter is untouched...
...Clamp. The millions of Berliners who could not fight, those who did not want to fight now that doom was on the doorstep, milled in panic. They surged to the Ringbahn, fought each other to get on the last trains to anywhere. They massed in the air-raid shelters, choked the Unter-grundbahn platforms and tracks. Stunned, they huddled wherever they could find shelter and waited...
...plant had been shut down, he said, since the heavy Allied air raid of March 11. At that time upward of 50,000 workers, including 10,000 foreign slaves, were on the Krupp production line...
This, the heaviest attack on Tokyo, was another fire raid, and thousands of tons of incendiaries were unloaded on the Itadashi Arsenal and 30 other targets in five square miles of the city. The U.S. crews noticed that the raging fires they started were swept by the wind toward the Imperial Palace. The Japs screamed that the palace had been set afire and the Emperor Meiji's shrine damaged; the people were "irresistibly indignant...
...escorted by fighters from Iwo Jima had hammered Tokyo's Musashino-Nakajima factory for the eighth time, and others had blasted an aircraft factory in Koriyama, 110 miles north of Tokyo-the most northerly target so far attacked. From reconnaissance photographs, the results of last fortnight's raid on Nagoya were read: the Mitsubishi plant almost completely destroyed, 90% of the roofing gone over the whole target area. This week Tokyo was hit again-the third time in five days-by B-29s in "very great strength...