Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...23rd birthday, the Army Air Forces' Lieut. Donel O'Brien, navigator, was reported "missing in action" after a bombing raid on Germany...
Back in January 1943, when German planes attacked London for the first time in 14 months, Londoners who had gone through the Great Blitz of 1940-41 were startled less by the raid itself than by the vast, thundering, metal-showering ack-ack barrage thrown up against the raiders...
Navy gunners in the harbor were still panting after a German bombing raid. Someone heard the roar of American engines, mistook them for more Germans. An excited ship captain shouted: "Those friendly planes are bombing me!" A gun roared. Hundreds joined the chorus. Helpless planes began tumbling...
Dana Andrews and Richard Conte play the parts of American aviators forced down over Chinese territory after the new-famous Doolittle raid on Tokyo. The plot from there is simple. Falling into the hands of the Japs, they are subjected to torture in an attempt to gain information about their base. Mediocre to the end, they refuse to divulge the required facts and march to their deaths to the strains of the Army Air Corps Song...
...Forces in the European Theater got a new No. 1 fighter pilot last week: Captain Walker ("Bud") Mahurin. His three kills in the second U.S. raid on Berlin boosted his score...