Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--American airmen, hammering Jap positions northwest of U. S.-held Guadalcanal, have staged their 78th raid on the big enemy base at Munda and scored bomb hits on a transport and corvette off Vella Lavella Island, the Navy disclosed today. Both of the enemy vessels were left burning...
Cantabridgians, like all good Americans, co-operated nobly with the air raid authorities, but maintained their traditional freedom of speech and action. Two slightly inebriated intellectuals kept up a torrid flow of claim and counter-claim on how to best lick Hitler during the maze of signals. When last seen, they were coming dangerously close to blows on the question of who was the better American...
...displayed their ability to cope with incendiaries in an "incident" atop the House squash courts. At a given signal, little men climbed nimbly up hastily erected ladders and began dousing the roof, each other, and, theoretically, the conflagration with streams of water from their fire hoses. With Chief Air Raid Warden Aldrich Durant looking on, the valiant blaze-battlers finished their task, and like the Arab of old, silently stole away...
Last week's announcements told of stout Jap resistance, particularly around Shortland Island, 300 miles northwest of Guadalcanal. In a raid on shipping at nearby Buin, U.S. bombers encountered 45 Zeros. In a raid on the same area the following day, eleven Zeros, two U.S. bombers, six U.S. fighters were shot down. Later that week, low-flying bombers had to duck through strong ack-ack fire to score direct hits on four Jap cargo ships...
When war came, Britons flocked to London's Waterloo Road to have regimental marks or "I Love Flossie Forever" needled into their skins. Air Raid Precaution women wanted ARP on their arms. One ambulance driver selected a bracelet with her name and address...