Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Yamashita inspected the broken Maginot Line and German fortifications on the French coast. He watched German flyers in training. He is said to have persuaded Hermann Goring, for whom he had wangled a decorative bauble, the Grand Cordon of the Rising Sun, to let him fly in a raid over Britain...
Wherever the bases were, the week's action proved that the Axis had embarked on more than a hit-&-run transatlantic raid, had won the first round of the battle of the Caribbean. Aruba was shelled twice (without material damage to the refinery). The raiders had accounted for seven of the shallow-draft tankers that carry oil from the Lake of Maracaibo to the islands. They had sunk four big ocean tankers, had put torpedoes into two freighters anchored off Trinidad. Total Axis casualties: three submarines, probably (but not positively) sunk by depth charges off Aruba...
...There is in this country, and especially here at Harvard, what seems to me to be a general lack of coordination between the various officers of the ARP system," said Sedgwick Minot, Jr. '45, an American citizen who has served as an air raid warden and liaison driver in Paris during the three months proceeding the final German drive on Paris in June...
Minot stresses the likelihood of an air raid, which would probably consist of a fair amount of incendiary bombing. "The houses in this part of the country are so appallingly vulnerable to incendiaries that there is no comparison with France, he said...
Just a few days before Paris fell, Minot went through a raid, stationed only a few hundred yards from one of the main forts defending the city. He fled Paris on a half-hour's notice, and drove continuously for 48 hours, covering only 300 miles. The ARP priority insignia on his car enabled him to get through military lines. Later he cycled 300 miles back to Paris, and months afterward finally received his papers to come to America via Lisbon...