Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Dr. Robert James Manion, 61, onetime surgeon, leader of Canada's Conservative party (1938-40), head of Canadian air raid defense; in Ottawa...
...east, British patrols made a night landing on Crete, destroyed planes and oil dumps, got a good look at the Axis defenses. A British broadcast had told the Cretans not to mistake this raid for invasion...
American airmen in Britain have matured in their understanding of war. They know that the July 4 raid last year was a spectacular stunt, more valuable in home headlines than in the Battle for Europe. The men of the Eighth await their real anniversary, which will not come until Aug. 17, one year from the day when American heavy bombers first flew into Occupied Europe...
...Torn Lea's literal impressions during the Battle of the Solomons. Notable were a richly colored night scene by Chicagoan Aaron Bohrod of soldiers from Fort Benning, Ga. disporting themselves at an amusement park, and Peter Kurd's painting of B-17s returning at twilight from a raid on Rouen. Other artists shown: Henry Billings, Floyd Davis, Edward Laning, Fletcher Martin, Barse Miller...
General Forrest's name was carried down through father and son to his great-grandson, Brigadier General Nathan Bedford Forrest of the U.S. Army Air Forces. Last week, in a curt communique, the Army announced that Brigadier General Forrest was missing from a raid over Kiel. When last seen, his bomber was spiraling down, still under control, but with one motor smoking and its tail half shot off. Eight parachutes were seen to drop from it; one might have been General Forrest's. If he was not among those saved a great name had died...