Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Determined air-raid wardens and plane spotters are buying binoculars (except those which meet Navy specifications) and telescopes. In Washington (where pawnshops are illegal but "secondhand merchandise establishments" carry on just the same) antiques, glasses and brassbound telescopes that had been in hock for decades are being snapped up by a rush of buyers...
Said Air Chief Marshal Sir Sholto Douglas, handing them over to Major General Carl M. Spaatz: "Goodby and thank you Eagle Squadrons 71, 121, 133 of the Fighter Command, and good hunting to you." At week's end they were off on their first raid over France wearing U.S. Army wings. Four Focke-Wulf 190s crashed under their guns...
...North China. It flew the U.S. flag and kept its Chinese students right up to Pearl Harbor. When the Japs seized the college, students and faculty lit out for West China. One group of nine, trapped in a village surrounded by Japanese, were rescued by a timely guerrilla raid. Another party, penniless, found a roll of bedding on a train, turned it in to the Y.M.C.A. They were rewarded with $2,000 by a merchant who had lost it-hidden in the roll...
Most recent graduate among the three casualties is Francis S. Parker, '39. He has been serving with the Canadian Army as a member of the Black Watch Regiment, and lost his life in the recent raid on Dieppe. Frederick G. Crocker, '34, who had been a member of the victorious Harvard football team of 1933, lost his life at sea sometime in August. He was posthumously promoted to the rank of Lieutenant...
...Philharmonic orchestra; it had been about as quiet as a monsoon. The open-air season at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium had piled up the largest deficit in the orchestra's 25-year history, most of which is written in red ink. Dimmed out as an air-raid precaution, the outdoor stadium had been plagued nightly by the whir of airplane motors. A bolt of lightning had demolished the sound shell on the stadium stage. The final concert had ended in a steady drizzle of rain, with seven violinists sadly sticking to their posts and moistly fiddling Auld Lang...