Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allies are desperately fighting submarines with planes. Two out of every three R.A.F. bombers have been fighting the Battle of the Atlantic. Practically every German city under major attack in the last twelve months manufactures some U-boat part. Last week R.A.F. bombers, in their 112th raid on Cologne, made the heaviest attack since May 30, when 5,000 acres and 250 factories were ruined. Last week's raid was timed to flatten Cologne's burgeoning reconstruction, level factories just resuming the production of diesel engines and U-boat batteries. The British dropped 100 two-ton bombs...
...first I knew that things were beginning to happen was when the air-raid sirens blew before daylight Nov. 8. I got up, looked out of the window, and saw nothing but a clear, cloudless sky, with no sound of planes or antiaircraft. So I concluded that it was a false alarm, and went back to bed. I dozed off, but came to with the sound of troops running through the streets, so I tumbled out to have another look; and then realized for the first time that there was really something up. It was then light enough...
High over the capital of the Reich droned planes of the R.A.F. Swift, light Mosquito bombers, in the first daytime raid on Berlin, were dodging ack-ack, fighting off the few fighters of the astonished Luftwaffe and raining 500-lb. bombs on a now noisy and exploding city...
...enough for a Fortress to land. Saunders became Airbase Commander, quickly got the field into better condition, established air supply lines for gasoline, parts and crews. At heart still a tackle (West Point 1924-25), Blondie was a Flying Commander, too, led many a bombing mission. On a raid over the Shortland Islands his pilot and co-pilot were killed. Saunders took the controls, crash-landed on a beach from which he and other survivors were picked up next...
...other trainees demonstrated how to avoid and neutralize booby traps left by the enemy. Carefully they carried out a mop-up raid on "Führerville," which the engineers had contrived from old lumber. Two of them imitated weary soldiers trying to find a place to rest, did all of the incorrect things. One picked up a pair of gloves. An explosion followed. The same happened when they set foot on the doorstep, opened a door, shut a window...