Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eighth Air Force maintained its attacks from Britain at the un precedented rate of one mass raid every two and a half days. In an attack on Bremen, Thunderbolts and P-38 Lightnings made their longest escort penetration of the war (900 round-trip miles). Lost: 15 heavy bombers. U.S. and British heavy bombers from North Africa and the R.A.F. Bomber Command in Britain attacked the Germans' rail lines between France and Italy, reported that the most important of them had been severed at least temporarily...
From bases in Italy, Lightning-escorted U.S. Mitchell (B25) medium bombers this week made their first raid on Sofia, vital Nazi rail hub, and left the Bulgarian capital's yards wreathed in smoke and flame. Crowed an Allied spokesman: "This successful opening of the Balkans offensive has far-reaching consequences...
...during the night . . . indicates that crews adhered to their definite instructions and did not bomb Vatican City." The world was reminded that as long ago as April 1941, London had warned the world that the Nazis and Fascists might use captured British bombs and captured British planes to raid the papal seat...
Washington ordered him to bring back Pancho Villa, who had dared to cross the U.S. border on a raid. Pershing tracked the rascal Villa down. But Washington changed its mind. Washington told Pershing to let the rascal go and Pershing obeyed, tightlipped...
...clownish, kindly-hearted Brooklyn taxi driver (William Bendix), a smooth, hard sergeant (Lloyd Nolan), an ex-All-America chaplain (Preston Foster), a trigger-happy, brave child called Chicken (Richard Jaeckel). These men and others as simply characterized are put through 1) quiet days & nights of increasing apprehension; 2) the raid on a nearby village (Matanikau), from which only three returned (only one, in the film); 3) cleaning out the Japanese with grenades, gasoline and TNT; 4) the ferocious Japanese naval shelling of Oct. 15, 1942, during which William Bendix improvises a prayer; 5) the relief by the Army, which ends...