Word: raids
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Lieutenant John Cowperwaite Tyler, S.B., '17, who has been reported as ***** missing since Sept. 25, 1918, when he took part in an air raid over Germany, died overseas; his grave has recently been identified. Tyler enlisted in the Air Service June, 1917, training first in the Ground School at M. I. T., where he graduated near the top of his class, and later at other schools in France. He was attached for some time to a French escadrille for bombing duty, and then assigned to the command of a United States Squadron. Tyler received his brevet...
...regiment during the Germans' July offensive--but they're more quiet now than then, I assure you. Save for our presence and that of a few civilians who have come back to take up the sorry task of rebuilding and rehabilitating--yes, and save for an occasional air raid--we might as well be in some old stone quarry, camping by piles of scrap rock...
Like an echo to his words came the piercing call of the bugle as a signal of an air raid. The lights flashed...
From the dark, the colonel's voice rang out, "Let's have a light! We can have an air raid every evening, but we can't often hear Mr. Sothern. If he doesn't mind, we should like to have...
...that the first excitement is over, the results of the Zeebrugge-Ostend raid may be more carefully estimated. Clearly there were material gains; part of the Zeebrugge mole was destroyed and the channel at Ostend blocked up, but the chief advantages of the raid were moral. It will probably not take the Germans long to repair the damage, but they will now have to face a reawakened spirit in the British Navy that bodes no good for them. For a long time Zeebrugge and Ostend seem to have held the British in the spell of inaction; they have been regarded...