Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...issued by the War Department on American losses, a situation has arisen that is hardly morale-building. Just such was the case when Secretary of War Stimson was forced to admit last week that members of General Doolittle's Tokyo bombing party are now prisoners of Japan. After the raid Doolittle stated that "no planes were left behind in Japan." It is now known that several planes were forced down in Manchuria and other Jap-held regions. With such deliberate deceptions as this coming to light from time to time, it will soon be obvious to many Americans that daily...
Then, on June 11, 1940, came the first air raid. It was little more than a token to show Malta that Benito Mussolini was now in the war. Maltese looked up from their stony little cotton, wheat and potato fields. Ironworkers, coppersmiths and lacemakers stuck their heads out of their shops for a glimpse of Mussolini's planes. From emplacements in Malta's limestone rock around the Grand Harbour and His Majesty's Dockyards, anti-aircraft guns boomed. A house front was damaged, a few civilians hurt, but most of the bombs fell...
...week Malta had had its 30th raid. All the air force the British had was four Gladiator planes. One fell. The others, nicknamed "Faith," "Hope" and "Charity," carried on, fighting daily against 10-to-1 odds. Chief defense was the anti-aircraft guns. Even when the British acquired some Hurricane planes, air defense was not much. But the Italians were bad shots and frequently too sporting to be dangerous enemies...
...these men are tired. If they work by day, they are kept up by bombing or shelling at night; if at night, there is always a midday raid. They risk sickness, and some have succumbed despite synthetic medicines. . . . And yet they are cheerful...
...succor a wounded Japanese, only to be killed by the man he tried to help. Navy pilots, bailing out, have been machine-gunned by the enemy on the way down. Next day, Japanese military spokesmen said captured American airmen, who had allegedly taken part in the April 18 raid on Japan, would be "severely punished in accordance with international law for inhuman acts...