Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This matter of numbers may seem obvious, but it should not be forgotten. This raid on Messina, the biggest in this theater, was a reminder of the most important fundamental in our air offensive-one which in the future will grow increasingly important until...
...Only one fighter rose to intercept. Desperately it flung down on one of the big American bombers, locked wings and fell from the sky, bringing its victim with it. That was the only American loss. The planes returned to their Australian base, having successfully completed the second longest air raid for land-based bombers in the Pacific War-1,000 miles...
...Longest was an Army raid on Wake Island, 1,200 miles from the bombers' base...
...expect a considerable change of pace after Germany is defeated. . . . England, which is now the advance base in the fight against Germany, sees herself dropping out of the combat zone and fighting a war remote from her home shores, as we are doing now. . . . For instance, the huge air-raid precaution services, the Home Guard, the anti-aircraft defenses and all other activities connected with the bombing of England and the danger of invasion would have no further purpose and would be rapidly dismantled. A partial demobilization of troops is expected, and a partial conversion of war industry back...
...Hoffman of hard-hit Westphalia took the stand last week to counteract rumors of destruction and death circulating in the Ruhr. Said he: "It is claimed, for instance, that Hans Fritsche [official radio commentator] said in a broadcast that 10% of the armament industry has been destroyed in a raid on Dortmund. Fritsche said no such thing. This also applies to the catastrophe of the Möhne Dam. Twenty and 40 thousand were mentioned as the number of fatal casualties. The true figures were published. ... It is a deplorable fact . . . but we can admit it quite frankly...