Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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LONDON--German planes, flying single and taking advantage of clouds hanging low over the English channel today made the most extensive daylight raid against Britain in weeks, hitting at least 10 towns and villages in the southern and southeastern coastal areas...
...since Doolittle led the raid on Tokyo has the U.S. had a glimpse inside Japan. On that occasion the enemy was seen running helter-skelter from a rain of bombs. Last week the U.S. Navy got a report of a peep through a periscope. The enemy was at a horse race...
...Ovra are keeping on suspected revolutionaries and possible Darlanites. He made no mention of reports that near Foggia 40,000 peasants had joined with local militia in a spontaneous uprising which was put down after four days by troops from Rome; or that at Genoa on Oct. 23 air-raid wardens staged an anti-war demonstration...
...worse than the Japanese imagined. At first the Jap communiques claimed the destruction of only two battleships, damage to four others and to four cruisers. Whereas the Jap claimed destroying only 100 planes, he actually got 177. Tokyo radio continually revised its claims in the ten days following the raid, until the claims exceeded actual damage (example: 464 planes claimed...
...used. Applying first aid to victims, a procedure which is said to have saved numerous lives in the Cocoanut Grove holocaust, will also be covered thoroughly in the talk. Under Walton's direction, the University ARP course was completely revamped and Red Cross courses applying strictly to air raid emergencies have been devised for those interested...