Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Standing at attention while Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall intoned the formal citation, lean-faced, balding Jimmy Doolittle bent forward while President Roosevelt pinned the gold, blue-ribboned medal above his left shirt pocket. Not even a columnist, chortled the President, had known the identity of the raid's leader...
...success of the raid exceeded our most optimistic expectations." South of Tokyo he left in flames a cruiser or battleship under construction at the Navy yard. At Nagoya he showered incendiary bombs on the Mitsubishi airplane factory and an oil-tank farm. "It appeared to us that practically every bomb reached the target for which it was intended. . . . About 25 or 30 miles to sea the rear gunners reported seeing columns of smoke rising thousands of feet...
...bomber crews it was a wild & woolly life. In one raid a U.S. gunner knocked down a Zero so near his plane that the flaming plane looped out of control around the bomber and spun into the ground. After the fight there was more trouble-no doing of the Jap. The bomb doors would not close. Two U.S. enlisted men were lowered on ropes under the speeding plane. Without parachutes for comfort, they shook the doors loose, were hauled back with the certainty of heroes' medals...
...these and many another desperate raid the Jap was taking a good pounding. But it was not enough to stop him. His ships still went into his ports, his supplies piled up on the docks that called for hundreds more Allied bombers for their destruction. He was on the way again. There was no mistaking that...
...were its Nazi overlords. The New York Times heard last week that a full 90% of the French people were sick of collaboration with Germany. They had had both provocation and inspiration. There had been the ascendancy of the hated Pierre Laval in Vichy and the flashing British Commando raid on St.-Nazaire. The Times confirmed London reports that Frenchmen had not only received the Commandomen as deliverers but had also aided them with arms. The rising rate of Nazi executions fanned the fires. And, as if the demanding voices of the unspeakable Hitler and the porcine Laval were...