Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Respite. Germany was really feeling the weight of Allied air power. By day, the big Fortresses and Liberators of the U.S. Eighth Air Force came over to bomb key bases and war plants in northwestern Germany, the Lowlands and France. With each raid the precision bombing of the Americans left its mark, the crews gained in combat wisdom. They were learning to solve the tough defenses the Nazis put up against them, and their numbers were increasing heavily...
...British heavy bombers, grounded for several days, returned to the punishing round-the-clock schedule at week's end. In a raid unparalleled in its force they beat down the Ruhr's defenses and loosed 2,000 tons of bombs over the rail and water transport center of Dortmund, already heavily damaged in previous raids. With such attacks the weight of bombs dropped on Germany was soaring to astronomical figures: after Dortmund, the R.A.F. figured that its Bomber Command had reached the 100,000-ton mark. German retaliation to the air war was, by comparison, infinitesimal-nuisance raids...
...from German batteries and only a few minutes' flight from their airfields. Great Britain is the advanced fighting base of the United Nations and is still under constant siege and assault by air and sea. . . . If the Nazi villains drop upon us from the skies any night, in raid or heavy attack upon key production centers, you will make it clear to them that they have not alighted in the poultry run, or in the rabbit farm, or even in the sheep fold, but that they have come down in the lion...
...protest against the continued Allied air attack on railways, power stations, airdromes, war plants in Occupied France. Following his evocation of the boulevards and the fashions, the broadcaster said: "One cannot forget the war in Paris. Night & day one must be on the alert for the dreadful air-raid alarms, and be prepared to go to the cellar if he cares for his life." Axis news pictures have played up the same theme. One, probably genuine, showed Parisians in panic at the Longchamps races, during a raid on the nearby Renault aircraft plant...
Aldrich Durant, chief of Harvard's ARP, announced that the alert went off "as well as could be expected," considering the surprise nature of the alarm. All Cambridge personnel cooperated with a minimum of hitches. Since the time of the test raid was unknown, no "incidents" were planned...