Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Burma's west coast lies a long chain of flying fields, all the way back to Calcutta and beyond. By this route new planes were coming to be added to Burma's thin complement of bombers and U.S.-made fighters. The Allies raided Bangkok, reported they set great fires. They pounced on Jap airfields, riddling their ground establishments. In one raid near week's end, returning pilots reported they had smashed up 27 Jap planes, mostly bombers, on the ground...
...pieces, stacked ammunition in orderly piles. Their infantry comrades of the 1st Defense Battalion, U.S.M.C., worked at their rifles, dug entrenchments for the last stand, squinted critically at bright bayonets. The remainder of 1,000 A.F. of L. workmen who had been at work on the island deepened air-raid shelters, helped out Marines at their tasks. On the airdrome, mechanics and officers of the Marine's air squadron, VMF-211, patched up new planes from the tangled junk of their original twelve, now broken and burned by Jap bombs...
...large audience composed of students of Harvard and Radcliffe and Faculty and staff members and their families, were introduced to "What An Air Raid Warden Is Supposed to Do" by Mrs. DeRoth, a former warden of Chelsea, in London. Mrs. DeRoth were the uniform of Chelsea wardens including the steel helmet and gas mask. Remarking on the idealized conceptions of proper equipment for wardens, she said, "We used to hope the war would be over before we got all our equipment...
...duty was described by Mrs. DeRoth as the reporting of "incidents," the reserved British term for bomb hits. In case of falling bombs, the wardens must be outside investigating every explosion, regardless of danger from the bombs or "Your own anti-aircraft, which make the most noise in a raid, anyway...
...During a raid the warden must go on about his business, but is expected to take elementary precautions for his safety. You can hear the bomb, according to Mrs. DeRoth, and there is nothing to do but throw yourself on the ground. "It may be difficult at first to hurl yourself into mud or dirt, but a soiled coat is certainly preferable to being blown a block away by the blast...