Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many of these first-person reports have been given by plain people-like the women war workers who told you about their jobs at the arsenal proving grounds in Aberdeen, Maryland-or the Englishman just back from a Commando raid who told you the epic story of the battle of St.-Nazaire-or the U.S. bombardier in London who told you how it feels to bomb Germany...
...Premier Quisling, less at ease than when canoeing (see cut), screamed that the bombs which showered death and plaster on his Party rally came from "murder planes." The Norwegians laughed harshly. From eyewitnesses the story spread all over Norway and Europe that in the dash for the air-raid cellar, lo, Vidkun Quisling led all the rest...
...Hitler's Balkan headaches might be German occupation of the entire area and a push toward the Middle East through Turkey. Colonel General Löhr, newly appointed Luftwaffe commander for the Balkans, was one of Hitler's best. He it was who led the famed Coventry raid in 1940. Commanding Germany's Fourth Air Fleet, he had maintained supremacy of the air over Stalingrad for a month. When winter froze the Russian front the Fourth Air Fleet might follow its commander to the Balkans, where it probably could cause a great deal of trouble...
...passed since the R.A.F.'s overstrained pilot fighters broke the Luftwaffe's back (on Sept. 15, 1940 they downed 185 German planes) and the first Battle of Britain waned. The Luftwaffe was a weapon designed as the Army's air arm, not primarily for mass raids. Its attack on Britain was a none-too-brilliant job of improvisation. Since then German aircraft production has kept abreast of the Army's needs, but it is doubtful if Germany has been able to develop the heavy-bomber production which Britain and the U.S. achieved only after prolonged travail...
...Talk on Air Raid Precautions. Room 100. Assistant Professor Hower...