Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...such messages did tall, spectacled, shabby Ernest Frederick Lehmitz, 57, zealous air-raid warden, waiter, and operator of a sailors' boardinghouse, reveal U.S. ship movements to Nazi Intelligence. Spy Lehmitz settled in the U.S. in 1913, worked in the German Consulate in New York during World War I, was classed as a "dangerous alien" but not interned. Naturalized (1924), he went to Germany in 1938, was trained in a Nazi spy school, returned to the U.S. March 27, 1941 ready to work...
What happened at Messina is an old story now. [In 18 minutes the Fortresses saturated the port and marshaling yards so thoroughly that when the raid was over the target, area was obscured by fire and smoke. The Germans attacked viciously, flying into their own flak while the Forts made their bombing runs, dropping small bombs on the tight formations of the U.S. planes. In the bitter fight over Messina, 20 Nazis were shot down. But the Forts got through and hit two ships in the harbor, plastered warehouses, docks, railroad tracks, stations. Despite the heavy Axis defenses, total Allied...
R.A.F. reconnaissance last week gave evidence that bombing had cut the Ruhr's industrial output 35%. Some of the more important centers had suffered even more. More than 1,000 acres of Düsseldorf, western Germany's most important commercial city, were devastated in a single raid on June 11. Not only its factories, but administrative and engineering quarters, which serve much of the whole Ruhr sector, were destroyed. Seven days after the raid fires could still be seen smoldering...
...entire valley is crisscrossed by vital rail lines, virtually every Ruhr raid has struck hard at transport facilities. All the valley's traffic is now badly disrupted. Wholesale evacuation of refugees from the bomb-strafed centers has further complicated the mess. As the Ruhr produces roughly three quarters of Germany's coal, four fifths of her coke and two thirds of the nation's raw iron and steel, the effect of transport disruption on German industry as a whole is great...
...that the holding war was over, that the phase of attack had begun. General Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said last week that a new type of U.S. ship was in action: the air forces had received some Vultee Vengeance dive-bombers and the R.A.A.F. had used them to raid the Tenimber Islands 300 miles north of Darwin...