Word: raids
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wish I could describe a raid to you the way it feels. . . . You taxi out for takeoff. In a few minutes you are in the air and taking your position in the formation. There is not much conversation on the way. . . . You know the time of arrival at the target and you watch the clock on the dashboard crawl by. Then . . . you see your destination. The speed is picked up and there is a last-minute check on the instruments. Conversation picks up briefly-"Is this the bus to Baltimore?"-"Clear the bombways"-"Give 'em hell, doc" -"Here...
Even the Houses, which they would not normally enter until their Sophomore year, have altered. Strict evening dim-outs and practice air raid alarms will harry their nocturnal activities. If they follow a recently reported trend they will drink more beer than Scotch and have fewer, but more potent parties...
...terrors of war invaded the College's most historic course yesterday morning, turning what started out to be a normal English A examination into a mental air raid shelter...
While harrassed Freshmen were trying to concentrate on "Five Kinds of Writing," a hallowed textbook in a hallowed course, they were interrupted by a solemn-faced proctor who announced "in case of air raid, students may have five extra minutes for the examination." The startled Yardlings then returned to "Five Kinds...
...shrouded Bering Sea where U.S. planes would be less likely to see her. But other Jap cargo ships were luckier. At least two in the past fortnight have landed supplies for the Jap force which still clings to the tail of the Aleutians. On their next raid U.S. pilots, who had been having their own way over Kiska Harbor and who had begun to hope that they would dislodge the Japs, were met by a swarm of newly arrived Zeros...