Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Watched a mimic air-raid rescue in the rubble behind St. Paul's Cathedral, saw a movie of the 1940 blitz, inspected the bomb shelters in Dover's spacious caves...
...glimpse of the bomb damage wrought on stately Canterbury Cathedral-the day before the Nazis bombed the historic town in the heaviest daylight raid on England in two years...
Watching from a telephone-repeater station, Civilian Air-Raid Spotter R. M. Martin saw the airliner cruising smoothly ahead, followed by another twin-motored plane. Spotter Martin saw the trailing plane veer off to the side, then come back toward the transport at an angle. Suddenly "they looked like one plane, they were so close." Sky-watching citizens in Palm Springs thought they saw someone bail out in a parachute. But what they saw was the transport's tail assembly. Then the airliner screamed crazily earthward, careened into a mountainside. The wreckage burned for five hours; the three crew...
...British gave the Italians no rest. On three successive nights they made the 1,400-mile round trip to Italy's industrial north. They hammered again at battered Genoa. They pounded Turin, home of the royal arsenal. They made a daylight raid at Milan, which they visited again at night, dropping more bombs into the widespread fires. It was the heaviest, and most businesslike, aerial plastering Italy had got since the war began, and it would probably continue. British losses in the three days: eleven planes...
Rulers in Chains? The Germans began to manufacture the issue last month. They declared that British commandos had bound a few German prisoners taken in a minor raid on the Channel Islands. The Germans then announced that British and Canadian prisoners taken at Dieppe would be chained in retaliation. After much cogitation by Winston Churchill and his War Cabinet, the British announced that an equivalent number of German prisoners would be manacled until the Allied prisoners were unchained...