Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoulder. There was no one there. He asked how things were in America. ''I used to listen to your radio broadcasts," he said, "but now it is too damn dangerous. In my house I could listen to the radio fairly safely, but then came the big raid of July 27. Nothing was left of my house but matchwood, so my wife and I had to move into a one-room flat where it is dangerous to listen to the radio...
...Forces Major James ("Jimmy") Stewart, on his fifth bombing raid over Europe, wore his new gold oak leaves...
...Kuroki is a technical sergeant in the U.S. Army Air Forces, a qualified turret gunner in B-24 Liberator bombers, veteran of 30 heavy bombing missions against the enemy, survivor of the ruthless, costly raid on the Ploesti oilfields of Rumania, winner of two Distinguished Flying Crosses, wearer of the coveted Air Medal with four oakleaf clusters...
...earned one D.F.C. for 25 combat missions, another for the Ploesti raid...
Wallflower (by Mary Orr and Reginald Denham; produced by Meyer Davis) turns a Tarkington fable about two teenage stepsisters into a smoking-car joke. During a raid on a roadhouse, one of the sisters and one of her sister's discarded boy friends are found in an upstairs room. Eventually, of course, it turns out that people had very ribald imaginations...