Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tommies leaped on the man, discovered that he was a Nazi flyer, shot down in that night's raid on England and trying to surrender...
Victory in Estonia-a victory in sight, but yet to be won-would enable the Russians to: 1) roll back the entire German Baltic Front across the flat, creek-laced terrain of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania; 2) outflank the German front in White Russia; 3) raid Germany's supply routes across the Baltic, depriving the German munitions industry of Swedish ore and virtually isolating Finland...
...heavy-bomber crews came back from the hard-fought raid on Oschersleben (TIME, Jan. 24) full of admiration for the daring of an unknown fighter pilot - a U.S. airman in a Mustang who took on singlehanded a formation of 30 Nazi fighter planes...
Tokyo radio said that Liberators on another raid had headed for Japan; "impenetrable defenses" turned them back. On the way home, according to the Japs, the Americans bombed the island of Formosa "for propaganda purposes." Actual target: an aluminum plant at Takao...
...Raiding the Home Front. Having failed to defeat the Russians before winter, the German Army was forced to raid the home front merely to exist. Great collections of clothes were taken up, German workers were called out of the factories and sent to the training camps, the Government offices were combed out, and foreign labor-the potential "Trojan horse" that all Germans fear-was imported to keep the productive machine going...