Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, almost a fortnight later, the Washington Post broke the story of how devastating the German air raid damage at Italy's Bari harbor really was, how high the casualties (see p. 27). Bari had been the costliest "sneak attack" since Pearl Harbor. A high Administration official told a newsman: "You're going to hear more about that raid before you hear less."Somebody at Bari underestimated the Nazis...
...masters, stored in inland safety since Pearl Harbor, began returning to Manhattan museum walls. Bellicose Fiorello LaGuardia, who heretofore had enjoyed an air raid alert as much as a fire, lamely justified the relaxation: "I don't say [Hitler's] not coming over, but I'm sure he cannot come with enough to aim at the pictures and hit the mark...
Today the Japs are the only ones who know the true strength of the Marshalls' defenses. U.S. reconnaissance, dating from tlie Navy's first raid on the islands in January 1942, has put the main Jap works on five atolls...
...raid, well-planned and boldly executed, wrote a striking tactical lesson: superiority in the air cannot prevent isolated, successful enemy assaults. For Allied peoples, already overconfident of continued victories, it was a lesson to remember...
Lady Moe was brought back from Algiers in a Fortress, after the shuttle raid on Regensburg late last summer, by three sergeants who paid 400 francs ($8) for the little beast. As expected, Lady Moe panicked the home base when she stuck her ridiculous hairy head out of the waist gunner's window as the plane landed. British health authorities were not amused, but eventually gave the animal a clean bill...