Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That fleet might at any moment try to break out to the open sea and raid in force on Allied convoys. It might serve as a grand bait to lure the British Home Fleet (which now includes U.S. units) into a massed submarine trap. The German Navy's new commander, Admiral Karl Doenitz, conferred last week with the Italian Naval Chief of Staff, Admiral Arturo Riccardi - a reminder that the fleet in Norway could also be used to draw Allied strength out of the Mediterranean, should worsening of the Axis position in Tunisia call for escape...
Down in the nose, Jack Mathis was ready. He was a country boy from Texas, slow but sure, not very excitable and yet pretty excited now. This was the biggest daylight raid the Eighth Air Force had ever carried to Hitler...
...Bombs away!" All he could get out was "Bombs-." He did not live to see the bombs split the target. He did not live to hear, as the others in the outfit did, of Winston Churchill's message to Major General Ira C. Eaker, calling the raid "a brilliant exploit, the effectiveness of which the photographs have revealed"-nor to hear General Eaker's answering promise: "We will repeat these efforts many times, and on an ever-increasing scale...
Because of the oft mentioned manpower shortage, the Interceptor Command has begun a drive among Harvard undergraduates through Phillips Brooks House to round up a number of men to work in their office taking calls from air raid spotters...
Spear-heading the undergraduates activity is the War Service Committee which has been responsible for recruiting nearly 500 Air Raid Precaution officers, one-hundred volunteer hospital orderlies, sending several thousand students to the Red Cross Blood Center and selling $6,000 in War Bonds and Stamps...