Word: raiding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day U.S. bombers followed the R.A.F. over Hamburg, also bombed shipyards at Kiel, aircraft and other war factories in two Baltic towns near ravaged Rostock. That night the R.A.F. gave Essen its biggest raid (2,000 tons) and U.S. bombers were again awing during the following...
...Liberator bombers, their exhausts glowing red. For 70 minutes they "buzzed" the city, bombing warehouses, railroads, docks. Most important target was the big oil refinery. As the bombers winged homeward to their Australian base, flames from the refinery could be seen for 140 miles. It was the longest raid of the Pacific war-2,400 miles round trip...
Commenting on the Paramoshiri raid, the commander of the U.S. bomber groups in China, Colonel Eugene Beebe, said "They ain't seen nothing...
...savage, costly attack; 17 Allied planes did not return. It proved, as the July 4 Commando raid on the island had proved, that Crete is formidable. But the island will have to be reduced before any Allied thrust is made toward the Balkans. Now, perhaps, the preliminary softening-up is under...
Allied air superiority in the South Pacific had shifted from potential to actual. A few months ago the largest number of Allied planes ever to raid Rabaul was 37. In the last fortnight nights of as many as 150 bombers plus fighter escort have been over Munda and Bairoko regularly; on one day 250 sorties were made against Munda...