Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Anxiety lay dark and heavy over restless Chungking: what seemed at first a minor foraging raid by the Japs had grown to a major offensive and a staggering calamity for weary China. Chungking admitted that the enemy...
Young, ambitious Barrister Smuts began his political career as a follower of Cecil Rhodes. No disciple ever suffered more heartsickening disillusion. Impatient Cecil Rhodes stood unmasked as one of the plotters of the famed Jameson Raid (1895), which would have pulled sturdy Oom (uncle) Paul Kruger's Transvaal Republic into the British sphere. Jan Smuts tasted bitter ashes. None of his original ties to Britain & Empire had come to him by birth; his paternal ancestors had migrated from Holland more than a century before; he himself had grown up as an old-stock Dutchman among alien but ruling British...
...TANANA ICE BREAKS" gets blacker type in the Fairbanks News-Miner than a 2,000-plane raid on Germany. The Ice Pool is big business. Since it is a lottery and cannot use the mails, ballots are flown or mushed by dog team to remote settlements. Since February, as for 27 years past, thousands of Alaskans have guessed the day, hour and minute that the ice would break, backed their hunches at $1 a throw. Last week eleven tickets (at $10,000 each) tied for the winning minute...
Japanese tanks scooted along the dusty country roads like beetles. Behind them came cavalry columns, motorized troops, supply trains, artillery. The dust they raised made it plain that this was no usual spring raid. This time it was a full-scale offensive, and it seemed to fit snugly into the Tokyo pattern of global...
Major James Stewart, tall, gangling cinemactor, whose commercial pilot's rating made him an Air Forces natural once he put on enough weight to meet Army standards, received the Distinguished Flying Cross-for his leadership in the Feb. 20 raid on aircraft factories at Brunswick (20 U.S. planes lost). Previous decorations: the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster. As an Eighth Air Force squadron commander, he was the pilot-leader of 20-odd B-24 bombers on eleven missions over Germany, is now operations officer for his station's 50 to too Liberators...