Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crew of the Fortress Passion Flower it was their 18th and biggest mission-the first big U.S. raid on Berlin. In the ball turret Gunner Dick Litherland of St. Francis, Ill. sweated it out-the toughest battle U.S. airmen had fought over Europe. Sixty-eight Fortresses and Liberators failed to return, but Passion Flower dragged home on three engines. Gunner Litherland told this story...
...Salt Lake City, carted seven people off to jail for living as man and wives. Similar posses in other cities swiftly followed suit. By nightfall State and Federal police had dragged from bedroom & parlor, and jailed 50 men and women in Utah, Idaho, Arizona. It was the biggest raid on polygamists since the orthodox Mormon Church officially outlawed plural marriage...
...Really, I'm disappointed," said the explosives expert. "They are not nearly as good as they should be." But when the air-raid sirens began to wail at that moment, he ordered the car to stop, jumped into the safety of an underground station without pausing to say good night...
Last week the "little blitz" on England waned-at least temporarily. In one raid two Nazi planes were shot down, in another five of an estimated 100 (only a half dozen reached London). This brought to about 75 German losses in a fortnight-some 7% of the attacking forces. Damage and casualties were still closely guarded secrets, but Home Secretary Herbert Morrison let slip that one of the "episodes" (presumably the previous week) had been "as bad as the worst single incident" of the 1940-41 blitz...
...Friday the U.S. Eighth Air Force flicked a feint at Berlin with P-38 Lightning fighters. Next day the Eighth threw a half-punch. Heavy bombers raided targets in eastern Germany and one formation of Fortresses dropped bombs on the Berlin district, for the first U.S. raid on the battered capital of the Reich...