Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facilitate free movement of the officers of the University during times of blackout or air raid. Official Identity Cards have been made available for them it was announced this week. These cards will give the bearer the right to move at will during a blackout...
...infested Brazil last week the Japs were beginning to take the play away from the Nazis. While busy cops hopped frantically up & down the coast, Japs & more Japs kept turning up, equipped with everything from illegal radio transmitters to detailed maps of Brazil's shoreline. One raid unearthed an arsenal of 400,000 rifle cartridges, a lot of automatic riot rifles. Another raid at São Paulo deprived the Japs of 42 high-powered speedboats. The most sinister Jap enterprise discovered was the outfitting of a small port near Jaquiá, about 90 miles southwest of Santos, with...
...Japs took a licking last week. They took it over and off northern Australia: at Kupang in Timor; at Salamaua and Lae in New Guinea, where U.S. and Aussie bombs scrambled scores of Jap planes on the ground; at Darwin, where four, possibly six, Jap bombers fell in one raid. More & more U.S. and Australian planes met fewer & fewer Japanese planes. Still more U.S. fighters, pilots and ground crews were arriving; more bombers were completing the long air-ferry leap across the Pacific...
Life for men and women is full of difficulties. And if the difficulties are mostly trivial, they dampen the spirits perhaps even more than splendid trials. Though there has not been a major bombing raid in nearly a year, there is total, blackout every night, everywhere. The first experience of a blackout has its interesting points, but on the 1,001st night it is only a bloody nuisance...
...news of the U.S. raids on Wake and Marcus Islands (TIME, April 6) had been withheld for about four weeks-setting a precedent for the 35-day delay in the case of the Langley. But in the island raid there were plausible grounds for delay-to conceal from the enemy the whereabouts of the raiding task force until it had reached port and again gone out about its business. In the case of the Langley there were no such grounds...