Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Brigadier General Kenneth Walker's bomber failed to return from a raid at Rabaul (TIME, Jan. 18) he was the second air general to be lost in the South west Pacific...
...R.A.F. had dumped 900 tons of bombs on Berlin, double the tonnage ever dropped on London in one raid, greater than Berlin experienced in its last raid March 1. That raid, according to Swedish press correspondents, killed 2,000 and damaged many important buildings, including Luftwaffe headquarters. This one was bigger. Aside from morale and Government buildings, Berlin offered important industrial targets: Europe's largest brake factory in suburban Lichtenberg, the huge concentration of iron, steel, electrical-equipment, locomotive and tank factories at Spandau, aircraft and chemical plants in other suburbs. The first Swedish reports indicated that the industrial...
Generals and Admirals. Much of the confusion in the public mind stems from Army-Navy antagonism, by now diminished, but still flickering. One day 13 months ago Secretary Stimson told the U.S. the reason for Los Angeles' air-raid alarm: "Enemy agents flew over in 15 planes." Navy Secretary Knox called it a false alarm...
...pilots soon discovered that Ken Walker was no long-nosed owl. He went on three bombing missions the first day, in three different types of bombers-and came back disgusted: "Hell, we didn't hit anything." Thereafter, he went on many another raid, figuring out ways to improve the score. When the bombardier dropped his bombs Ken Walker was up front watching him. And when the Zeros swarmed in, the general went back with the side gunners. Sometimes he manned a gun himself...
...best proof of Ken Walker's labors came on his 17th raid. That time his bombardiers and gunners sent nine Jap ships to the bottom of Rabaul Harbor. But the aircraft that failed to return from his most successful raid was the one the airmen's general was riding...