Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...military stores. They also found many a record of pre-war U.S. policy: the trucks had been made in the U.S., the gasoline containers bore the trade-mark of a U.S. refiner, the Jap garrison's corned beef had a U.S. label on the cans. Makin after the raid looked better to Colonel Carlson. Said he: "It was a sight to see. There were dead Japs all over the place...
Said the British: "The raid was a reconnaissance in force, having a vital part in our agreed offensive policy." That offensive policy presumably was an eventual second front, for which the Canadians had staged a costly rehearsal. What had been learned from it, what had been accomplished beyond the probable diversion of more of the Luftwaffe to the west and the destruction of some military installations, the High Command kept to itself...
...cameraman of Moscow Strikes Back is Alexander Schneiderov, who, while shooting the sequence on the paratroop raid deep in enemy territory, was machine-gunned by German night fighter planes as he parachuted to earth. Despite his wound, he fought and photographed for 25 days, until the Red Army caught up with the paratroopers...
...still is, short in one all-important defense. Taking a calculated risk, the German High Command has sent most of its air power to the Russian and Egyptian fronts. Rundstedt was reported last week to have had only 300 fighter planes and 200 bombers to deal with the Dieppe raid. Some of these he had to call down from Holland...
...raids they lost not a single Flying Fortress on some 60 plane missions across the line. In five of the flights there was no proof that the U.S.'s high-flying bomber carried its own protection against German pursuit, for British pilots in Spitfires went along, gave the Fortresses an adept and able defense. But in the sixth raid nine Fortresses went out beyond the range of their fighter escort, plowed on alone over the North...