Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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First Drops. As resistance grew and repression stiffened, the parachutes kept Danish spirits up. Air-raid sirens wailed on many August nights, but no bombs fell. In the morning Danes would find abandoned parachutes in the fields. Word spread rapidly that the British were repatriating the young men who had fled to learn the saboteur's trade. One such young man was found crumpled in a Copenhagen garden, false papers, ration cards and 30,000 kroner in his pockets. His parachute had failed...
Missing in Action. Air Forces Lieut. Colonel Charles Greening, Tokyo raider credited with devising the 20? bombsight that was used lest a Norden fall in Jap hands; in a raid over Italy...
...months ago the Eighth had no planets, no airfields, no crews. It was five months before U.S. flyers could take part in a British-staged raid on Nazi airfields in The Netherlands. It was six months before the first All-American Flying Fortress raid, led by General Eaker himself, could take off to drop 18½ tons of bombs on railroad yards at Rouen in France. It was nearly a year before Eaker could stage the Eighth's first raid against targets in Germany...
Night Work. In San Diego, George A. Scott stopped to peer into an air-raid shelter on his way home from a costume party. Neighbors who saw him, dressed as The Mikado's Lord High Executioner, quickly called police. Near Camp Edwards, Mass., Private John J. Czeike pitched his tent at night, woke the next morning to discover that he had slept with a skunk in a bed of poison...
...chapel. Often he goes to the factory canteen, holds a brief service (hymns, prayers, address, question-&-answer period) after meals. He sometimes holds services in the shadow of a ship's hull, perhaps during the night leads a few hymns and some prayers in the factory air-raid shelter...