Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aircraft centers of Leipzig, blasted the night before by 1,000 R.A.F. bombers, Oschersleben,. Gotha, Bernburg, Brunswick, Halberstadt, Tutow, and even faraway Posen in conquered Poland. That night the massive Lancasters and Halifaxes of the R.A.F. trundled out to shower down 2,240 tons of bombs in a raid on Stuttgart over 450 miles from London...
Swiftly through the week Allied air fleets hammered at the targets. On Monday the U.S. heavies were out again. On Tuesday they were joined by bombers of the Fifteenth Air Force, based in Italy, which flew north to strike at Regensburg, and followed the next day with a raid on Steyr. in Austria. In balanced rhythm the R.A.F. followed the Americans in smashes at Augsburg and Schweinfurt...
Died. Frederick Jerome Lyon, 65, spectacular Connecticut-born soldier of fortune. Highlights of his early career: in '94 jailed in Brazil for running guns to the revolutionists; in '95 shipwrecked off South Africa; in '95 severely wounded on Jameson's raid from Mafeking into the Transvaal; the next year sole survivor, again severely wounded, of a surveying expedition for Cecil Rhodes's Capetown-to-Cairo telegraph line. Lyon fought in the Spanish-American War, served as a sergeant major through the Philippine Insurrection. Home from the wars, he prospected in the Klondike, worked...
...pain even after they "awoke." Salter also conditioned patients to deafness to all sounds but his own voice. When a gun was fired behind a patient, he gave no sign of hearing it; his blood pressure did not even rise. Salter played a recording of an air raid so loud that he could not hear his own voice, but the patient heard Salter's questions and gave the right answers (read from his lip movements). Salter's patients took to this game so eagerly that he had to warn them : he found that they hypnotized themselves to deafness...
Then the Japs, in desperation, guarantee that the flyers will be treated as ordinary prisoners of war if they will specify the base for the raid. The alternative-execution. The flyers are strongly tempted. Using their wings and a vase, they hold a secret ballot. If one set of wings is broken they agree to tell. Every pair falls out of the vase intact. As they hear their death sentence two or three of the men, in the finest moment in the picture, find their faces irresistibly caught into strange proud, victorious smiles...