Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ranger's greatest feat was to spearhead a British task force last October in a daring raid into Norwegian waters, well within range of German land-based bombers. In two attacks the carrier's planes sank four merchantmen, a tanker and an oil barge, damaged other ships and shot down a Junkers 88 and a Messerschmitt 115. The carrier was undamaged, lost only three planes. When she got back to port, British warcraft "cheered the ship" as she passed down the line, in a rare salute to a U.S. Navy ship and crew...
...there is an enemy rocket raid, "polish up [your...
Reported Dead. Lina Cavalieri, 69, beauteous, thrice-married soprano of Caruso's day; in an air raid on Florence, Italy. It was on the occasion of her profitable divorce from the late eccentric Robert Winthrop ("Sheriff Bob") Chanler that his late eccentric brother John Armstrong Chaloner sent him the famed telegram: "Who's loony...
...Preparation. At Tarawa the Navy learned that 3,000 tons of bombs and shells (more weight-but not more explosive-than ever hit Berlin in a single raid) was not enough to knock out the Japs' coconut-log, steel and concrete fortifications. The Navy also learned that four hours of pounding is not enough...
...base of Wilhelmshaven by daylight, plastered it with more than 1,600 tons of bombs. The attackers had to struggle through snow, rain and high winds to reach the target. Antiaircraft fire was heavy but Nazi fighter opposition was puny; only four U.S. heavy bombers were lost on the raid...