Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ventura was lost in the raid, which was made in daylight last evening. It followed attacks on enemy shipping off the Dutch coast, in which RAF Typhoons set afire one armed trawler without loss. Three, German planes were destroyed over British last night...
...backs and bunions of U.S. postmen ached more than usual last week. The Book-of-the-Month Club was sending out its March selections: William Saroyan's warmhearted The Human Comedy (TIME, March 1), Berry Fleming's ladylike Colonel Effingham's Raid. Mail carriers have long been used to the load dumped on them by the U.S. Post Office's fourth largest customer,* but last week's was the greatest fardel of them all-342,000 copies of The Human Comedy alone. Crowed The Book-of-the-Month Club: "The largest advance printing...
...German raid on London in retaliation for that on Berlin (see col. 1) was routine. Only a few planes got through. A tethered barrage balloon was shot down, another was shot free by British antiaircraft. There were very few casualties from bombing. But, on the night of the raid, 178 people died in an accident more gruesome than any of its kind since the Chungking dugout panic, when 461 were suffocated or crushed to death. This is what happened in London...
...woman waited in line to be let into the air-raid shelter. She had a baby in one arm, a satchel containing blankets, sandwiches and a thermos bottle in the other...
...Darwin he got a Japanese bomb splinter in his head during an air raid. He met his old chief of staff, Douglas MacArthur, upon the latter's arrival in Australia. Then he took off for New Zealand as the first U.S. Minister to that Dominion (the job for which he had ostensibly been sent to the Pacific in January...