Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Missing in Action. Lieut. John Gilbert Winant Jr., 21, older son of the Ambassador to Britain; after an Eighth Air Force raid on Münster, his 13th combat mission. Fellow flyers reported seeing parachutes float from his Flying Fortress Tech Supply, shot down in an attack by three enemy fighters. A Princeton sophomore when he joined the Army Air Forces last year, the handsome, taciturn pilot flew on his first mission eight weeks ago, joined the first U.S. shuttle raid on Germany, flew safely to Africa over 300 miles of hot enemy territory with 75 flak holes...
...University of California at Los Angeles. He graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) in 1934, soon set out on the kind of career newsmen dream about. He was in the Balkans with his handsome wife when Germany invaded Poland. From Lwow he sent one of the war's first air-raid eyewitness dispatches: "As I write . . . 21 German bombers are raining heavy bombs. . . . The table under my hand is shaking like something alive. If [the hotel] holds together until I can get this off to Rumania then I will believe in miracles...
Suspension of round-the-clock watches in the network of observation posts and the metropolitan filter centers recognizes "the transition to the offensive," assumes "the calculated risk of a small-scale raid" to release manpower. The A.W.S. will not be disbanded, will be maintained as an organization which can be fully alerted if needed...
...Reward. The circus made one trip to Africa, later flew down again to join Pat's Ninth Air Force Bomber Command for the spectacular Ploesti oil refineries raid, the long-range thrust at Wiener-Neustadt. Ted personally led the Liberators on the Wiener-Neustadt show. When they returned to the African base, General Pat was there to greet him with a bottle of whisky for the victory toast...
...Poop. Slangy and informal, Ted has a deceptively casual attitude toward "poop" (planning and paper work). When training in the desert for the Ploesti raid Colonel Ted used old five-gallon oilcans for filing cabinets. One day he startled the office staff by striding in with three cans, dropping them on the floor with a vast clatter, and saying simply, "There's the poop...