Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most daring was a raid against the Foggia air, rail and road junction on Italy's Adriatic flank. Reconnaissance had shown that the Luftwaffe had dispersed a fleet of Junkers 88s across Foggia's main drome and ten satellite fields. A carefully coached armada of more than 100 Lightnings raced across the Mediterranean and the Italian boot, roared across the dusty plain around Foggia, at hedgehopping altitude, caught the Germans by surprise. Their strafing fire raked at least...
Back at their base, the Lightnings were met by Lieut. General Carl Spaatz, Northwest African Air Force chief. Cried he: "Where's MacNicol? I want to give him the D.F.C." On the disheveled tunic of the raid commander, Lieut. Colonel George M. MacNicol, the general pinned a Distinguished Flying Cross...
...darkened restaurants along the Kurfürstendamm, Berliners listened to the stories and dreadful rumors from Hamburg-200,000 dead, the tunnel under the Elbe River cracked open, and 18,000 drowned; Hamburg all but obliterated. The cautious camped near the Zoo against emergency bunkers, slept in air-raid shelters. The terrified left the city for its safer fringes...
...Africa on Aug. 17, blasting factories, shuttled back to British bases, wrecking an aircraft assembly plant in Bordeaux. All across Hitler's Europe the Allied airmen's campaign of destruction continued. At week's end it reached another climax. R.A.F. bombers staged a second saturation raid. This time they were over Nürnberg, vital railroad center, crowded factory city and Naziism's shrine. Inside of 45 minutes 1,500 tons of bombs poured down...
...retaliate for a bombing of Hankow in which U.S. Liberator bombers shot down 35 of 50 intercepting Zeros, the Jap air force last week ordered 47 planes over Chungking to give the Chinese provisional capital its first raid in almost two years. Three times opposed on their way, only about 30 planes reached the Chungking area, where Chinese pilots took them on. Jap bombs fell outside the city limits, did little damage. Reported ex-Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson of the New York Times: "Among the targets most valiantly attacked . . . were rice fields, vegetable gardens, flower gardens, one dammed-up swimming...