Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the Czechs were mobilizing and France was calling up her reserves-crossed five miles of mined border into Holland en route to Britain - there heard Chamberlain defend before the House of Commons his tragic effort "to keep peace in our time" while his countrymen were feverishly digging air raid shelters and experimenting with barrage balloons. That same year she visited Canada to meet the Dominion's key officials-and in 1940 she traveled to Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Lima and Quito getting acquainted with many important policymakers south of the Rio Grande...
...high enough to elicit a spate of explanation. Said the chief of the Eighth Air Force Bomber Command, Brigadier General Frederick L. Anderson: "The entire works are now inactive. ... It may be possible for the Germans eventually to restore 25% of normal productive capacity." President Roosevelt implied that the raid was worth while. The chief of the Army Air Forces, General Henry H. Arnold, said: "The Schweinfurt attack will have a definite effect on the German war economy . . . and will result in the shortening of the war." The Luftwaffe lost at least 102 fighters, used 300 fighter planes...
...Nazi battleship Bismarck after it had sunk H.M.S. Hood; 2) Rudolf Hess's flight to Scotland; 3) Nazi invasion of Russia; 4) Pearl Harbor; 5) Allied invasion of North Africa; 6) the Red Army's defense of Sevastopol; 7) the Dieppe raid; 8) the boarding of the Nazi prison ship Altmark and the rescue of its prisoners; 9) the British Eighth Army's drive from El Alamein; 10) the London fire blitz...
...Wake Island raid Oct. 5 and 6, carrier-borne Hellcats shot 30 Japanese Zeros out of the air, nailed another 31 to the ground with merciless low-level strafing. Not a Hellcat was lost. At another Pacific island, not identified by the Navy, 21 Jap fighters were destroyed, two Hell cats lost. Combined score...
Escort Missions. Hellcats went looking for trouble in the Marcus Island raid Sept. 1, but ran into no opposition. They found it at Wake and in bomber-escort missions in the Solomons area...