Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lines and rear bases. Said General Spaatz: "This group of flyers struck perhaps the hardest blows in daylight ever delivered by an air force." The commander of this group, U.S. Major General James H. Doolittle, had to be reminded last week that April 18 was the anniversary of his raid on Tokyo. He looked in his logbook, found an entry describing "a 13-hour flight - one landing," and said: "So it was." On a typical day last week his Fortresses found 112 Axis transport planes on the ground at Castel-vetrano, Sicily, and destroyed 51, including eight huge six-motored...
...first anniversary of the U.S. bombing raid on Tokyo, the U.S. got its first public information on how it was done. Through censorship from Africa the United Press was allowed to say that Jimmie Doolittle's Mitchell bombers had been carrier-based. But the War Department, which had promised to celebrate the anniversary by telling all, changed its mind, kept mum about Shangrila...
...Australia's Minister for External (Foreign) Affairs, Dr. Herbert V. Evatt, who had just arrived in Washington from Australia, translated this disparity in ominous terms: "This week Port Moresby experienced its 106th air raid when 100 Japanese planes attacked the garrison. . . . The heaviest attack yet made on Rabaul by [Allied] forces of the Southwest Pacific Area has consisted of 37 aircraft...
...Summer Tide. The Allies conceded that their counter-measures were so far inadequate. Heavy bombers stormed over submarine repair and construction centers at Wilhelmshaven, Duisburg, Lorient, Saint-Nazaire, Vegesack, but with limited success. A recent raid on Vegesack, touted as "possibly the heaviest single blow of the war against U-boat production," resulted in damage to seven of 15 unfinished U-boats. Germany's submarine production, to which all other naval building is subordinate, may be as high as 40 a month; Doenitz may already have upward of 600 raiders in his fleet...
...night backstage, that his brigade is moving. That is only a beginning for German Intelligence Headquarters, which promptly assigns two men to the job of discovering the English plan and destination. From scraps of information, each almost meaningless in itself, these spies deduce the imminence of a commando raid and its objective, a submarine base on the French coast. Result: the English are trapped when they land, and almost totally wiped...