Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombers and fighters struck at Berlin, the Luftwaffe reaction was different. Hundreds of fighters rose to the attack, in air combats as bitter as any the war had seen. Eighty-eight Nazi ships were shot down; 63 U.S. bombers and 14 fighters were lost. From that raid Lieut. John M. Gibbons, of Jefferson City, Mo., returned with one of the strange stories of the war: his bomber, the lone survivor of its formation, had nearly been knocked down by a dead enemy. Eighty German fighters had attacked straight into Gibbons' formation. Said Gibbons...
...struck close to Hans Hube. His son had been killed on the Eastern front; his daughter had died in an air raid on Berlin. He himself, the Reich's famed one-armed tank general, had barely managed to slip out of the Russians' reach on the hostile Ukrainian steppe...
Again & again, the Emperor's bombers returned. On the ground, fifth columnists who had sabotaged the air-raid warning put lighted flares and rockets to guide them. Within two days Brereton's effective air force was reduced to about two score planes...
Under Japanese noses a strong contingent of U.S. carriers and warships had come secretly-apparently from the Pacific-to join British, French and Dutch units. Last week this brand-new force gave the Japanese the hardest-hitting raid they had seen in this area since the summer...
Iron Mike. On a raid over Germany a B-24 Liberator was so badly hit by flak that the crew bailed out. Then the empty, staggering bomber perked up, flew a straight and level course for 150 miles, finally crashed off the English coast barely ten miles from her home base...