Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raid was the sixth "in force" on northern Italy since Oct. 22 (TIME, Nov. 2). The British lost 18 planes in all six raids. These were the price of heavily damaging 1,000 acres of harbor area, with two drydocks and facilities for handling 8,000,000 tons of shipping annually-shipping which in war has supplied Rommel's Panzers in Africa and Germany's air bases on Sicily. The British airmen, returning through the rain, snow and ice of the Alps after their hazardous flight, had reason to be satisfied...
...Occupied France. They blasted targets at Brest, the Nazis' Atlantic U-boat nest, where they shot down four Nazi fighters, lost one of their own fighter escort. Next day they struck at the factory-studded area around Lille where they had already done much damage in the raid four weeks ago (TIME, Oct. 19). This week, while other Allied bombers pasted Le Havre, U.S. forces made their first raid on St. Nazaire's big submarine base where strong defenses cost the loss of three Fortresses in the longest operational flight yet undertaken by U.S. airmen...
...Bombers from Malta had eased the way for the Allies with a crushing raid on the airport near Tunis which wrecked or crippled 38 planes, and the Rome radio reported a tangle between Italian and Allied fighter planes over Cape Bon, 145 miles, inside Tunisia from Algeria. This indicated Allied fighters were operating from new forward bases in Algeria or that long-range fighters from Malta had joined the fray...
...raids last June the eleven Negroes were picked up as "material witnesses," intimidated into signing prepared statements. Their bail was set at $5,000, which none, of course, could meet. That was the last anyone except the jail guards saw of them until last week when they appeared briefly at a hearing at which Donovan sought to have his indictment quashed. Some testified they were just standing around and watching the raid when they were arrested. After the hearing, the bewildered Negroes were sent back to jail. There they remained, still incommunicado; finally a Federal judge stepped in this week...
Chennault himself revealed that his bombers had been in the air for twelve hours on the Linhsi raid. Thus they had not used the most advanced bases open to them. If those bases were utilized, U.S. bombers could, and no doubt would, hit at deeper, more vital sources of Jap power. The Japanese could see that, despite knotty U.S. supply problems, Chennault's forces were in a position to divert Japanese strength from the periphery of conquest to protect the Empire's heart. Looking toward such a time, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's U.S. political adviser, Owen...