Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From Rendova, from coral islets in Blanche Channel, from positions on New Georgia, American artillery pounded at Munda. In one supporting raid the Allied Air Forces dropped 70 tons of bombs on the surrounded Japs. U.S. warships lobbed hundreds of shells on Bairoko and Vila...
...Washington the ranks of home-front watchers-air-raid wardens, fire guards, auxiliary police, etc.-had become so thin that OCD officials asked the armed services for help in staging a thumping parade at month's end. Their hope: that the spectacle of Civilian Defense Volunteer Office uniforms and equipment, sandwiched in among warlike detachments of soldiers and sailors, would stimulate recruiting of home-defense workers...
Washington's total of CDVO men & women has dropped from 70,000 to 48,000 in the past 18 months. Washington needs 6,000 air-raid wardens and 14,000 other workers to bring the organization up to minimum strength. But Washington's plight is not unique...
...slung ship began to give off an ugly plume of black smoke." U.S. gunnery had gotten a small Japanese ship within three minutes. But three minutes is time enough to flash a warning. It would no longer be a night attack at 400 miles, but a daylight raid at 800. Lawson heard the shout: "God damn! Let's go!" They went...
...almost two months, Lawson and his crew were handed across a vast stretch of China by litter, flatboat, junk, stretcher, sedan chair, charcoal-burning truck, bus, station wagon, train, plane. Most of the time, young Dr. C., indefatigable, kind, intelligent, was at their side. Several days after the raid he had walked all night, 26 miles, and all day, 26 miles back, to bring the American flyers to his father's hospital. "He was the most loyal man I ever...