Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...calligraphic British signatures were those of a major commanding the raid and a captain in the Coldstream Guards...
...Lovely Island. But last week's most interesting Pacific gesture was a carrier task-force raid on Surabaya on the north coast of Java. Next to Singapore, Surabaya was the biggest non-Japanese naval base in the Far Pacific-bigger than Manila or Hong Kong...
...Wake Island, 1,500 miles northeast of Truk, was bombed for the 16th time since a mighty carrier task force leveled the U.S.-owned island last October at a cost of 13 planes. A testimonial to the effectiveness of the October raid : not until last week, when one bomber was shot down, had a U.S. plane since been lost over Wake...
Last week's raid on "the pearl of the Indies" was puny, as carrier raids go nowadays: less than 100 planes, hardly one Essex-class complement. But there were promising factors: 1) for the first time Naval forces from the Mountbatten, Nimitz and MacArthur commands joined together; 2) Javanese, who have been wooed incessantly by Japanese propaganda, might begin to doubt that Tojo's forces were as all-powerful as he claimed; 3) surprisingly few Jap planes rose in defense; two of these were shot down, 19 others were destroyed on the ground; at least one ship...
Crew Chief Stuart (who named the plane after hearing Englishmen ordering their pints of mild & bitter in a local pub) tried hard to think of something spectacular that had happened to the ship. On one raid, it is true, a burst of flak fountained up right through the open bomb bay. Hot steel fragments rattled against cold steel bombs with a hellish din. But nothing happened...