Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fact that words to that effect made their rounds here in town, there is no confirmation or proof of such a happening. Our local papers and Army officials have openly denied this charge after examination of the bodies of Japanese pilots who took part in the Dec. 7 raid. Furthermore, the comprehensive Roberts report makes no mention of "Jap high-school boys...
...Axis offensive was getting under way, Malta on the western flank and Cyprus on the east were shields to ward off the first blows. Malta's metal was well tested. So far in World War II, Malta has had nearly 2,000 air raids and is still unconquered. Attacks last week sometimes lasted from dawn to dark, but the raid-toughened Maltese, using the caverns which honeycomb the island as air-raid shelters, carried on much as usual. Even the goats were so learned in raids that they flounced into ditches when the sirens wailed...
...jittery period for collaborators. They were still smarting over the R.A.F. raid on the German-supplying Renault automobile factories in suburban Paris (TIME, March 16). There was no longer any doubt that Britain would attack pro-German operations on French soil, even though the attack might kill Frenchmen. Moreover, there were signs that most Frenchmen supported the British...
They surprised and overpowered four Italian garrisons, destroyed huge quantities of war matériel, then headed back south with their prisoners. Triumphantly last week they quoted the remark of an Italian prisoner after a similar De Gaullist raid on Kufra last year: "Only those French devils could have done...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's books were stored in underground vaults under his home-usable for blackout reading if Grandson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana decides it is necessary to use the vaults as an air-raid shelter...