Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Japan flinched last week under the second U.S. raid on Paramoshiri in the Kuril Islands, 1,500 mi. from Tokyo...
...raid on Wiener-Neustadt climaxed a week of diversified air attacks over Greater Germany. As the nights grew longer the offensive arc expanded steadily. Early in the week British and Canadian heavy bombers gave the twin Rhineland industrial cities of Mannheim and Ludwigshafen their 57th aerial pounding of the war. On the same night fast Mosquito bombers struck at the Ruhr and the Fighter Command jabbed at airfields and railways in France and the Low Countries...
...Tail-End Charley" (last plane of a flight) caught this picture of flaming Ploesti during the U.S. raid on the Rumanian oil center which supplies vital fuel to Germany (TIME, Aug. 9). Delayed-action bombs had not yet exploded when the camera clicked, but incendiaries had started a network of fires. The U.S. Liberators dropped 300 tons of high explosive and thousands of incendiaries from as low as 100 ft. Planes flew through sheets of flame, emerged covered with soot, while gunners dueled with rooftop anti-aircraft and saw people waving from the streets. Losses were high...
Balance Sheet. For each R.A.F. night raid on Hamburg, 800 planes were used. They required 100,000 ground personnel and 40 to 60 airfields per raid. Lost were 88 bombers and 600 to 700 men. Estimated cost of lost planes and crews: $74,000,000. Dead were unknown thousands of Hamburg residents. Destroyed were seven sq. mi. of city (including 90% of the vital harbor area...
Safe at their British air base after a tough raid over Kiel, two U.S. staff sergeants felt a yearning for the beer pots of the nearest village. The only form of transportation was a single bicycle, so off they went, one sergeant pedaling, the other perched on the handle ' bars. Just outside the town an M.P. flagged them down, made them get off. Too dangerous...