Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luftwaffe raid on her hotel in Palermo, she sat on the floor in her pink pajamas because falling plaster hurt her feet. She went back to bed before the raid was over...
...Central Pacific, where frosty-eyed, newly promoted Admiral Raymond Spruance and his Central Pacific Fleet bored swiftly westward. Ten weeks elapsed between the first Central Pacific attack (Tarawa) and the second (Kwajalein). But only ten days after Kwajalein, U.S. troops landed on Eniwetok, while the Navy made its fierce raid on Truk...
...bombed London and sprinkled it with incendiaries (see below). London burned again, but only in isolated spots. The fires and destruction were nothing to compare with the holocaust of Berlin, where a third of the city, possibly more, lay in total ruin. To Berliners there would be no "greatest" raid any more. Death is not comparative...
...within the space of half an hour 2,800 tons of explosives plummeted into the torn city-90 tons a minute. As the armada headed home, smoke from the fires of Germany's capital rose 20,000 feet in the air. It was the war's heaviest raid on bleeding Berlin or anywhere else...
They're like a football game. You want your gunners to hit those planes so bad, and you see the tracers creeping up on them, and all of a sudden a plane bursts into flames and comes down. I saw six shot down in one raid outside Bizerte. . . ." Some things have been especially diffi cult for her. One ("The worst moment I've ever had in my life") happened at a hospital in Kairouan. Bob Hope asked her to sing for a young pilot in bed with a sheet tucked up to his chin. He suggested Night...