Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...night a raid force of the King's African Rifles, marines and commando units slipped out of Madagascar's Diego Suarez, by next nightfall were within range of Vichy's island of Mayotte in the channel. After dark they landed, took Mayotte without opposition or casualties, found radio station and all else intact...
...raid wardens and the special Navy ARP platoons, as wen as the faculty and student members of the civilian defense organization at Harvard functioned efficiently in yesterday's test air raid...
That was the kind of flying meant by Britain's Air Marshal Harris when he wrote to Major General Eisenhower on the eve of the raid: "I wish you luck . . . I know your magnificent youngsters will fetch a grunt out of the enemy with the first punch...
Attacking Bremen four nights in eight, the R.A.F. went die-straight to two sources of Nazi troublemaking: the U-boat yards and plane factories of Germany's second port. British authorities described the ancient Hanseatic city, after its four-raid treatment, as in the same rubble-heaped condition as Rostock, Lübeck and Cologne, pocked by huge craters, smudged by long-burning fires...
...Plebeian Rommel had no place in the skeleton post-war Reichswehr, and his frustrated longing for war turned him very early to the Nazis. He met Hitler in Württemberg, became a Storm Troop leader, joined a murderous raid against the Socialists and Communists of Coburg, a raid which Hitler, in Mein Kampf, singled out as the turning point in his career. Thereafter Rommel headed Hitler's personal police, the SS, and traveled with the leader and his adjutant, Bruckner, sharing with Bruckner the honor of sleeping in front of Hitler's bedroom door. When Hitler shook...