Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...people were at their prayers. Few ever knew what hit them. Flames licked up over the brown stucco walls as more bombs rained down. They hit Santa Catalina College for girls, the Philippine Treasury Building. Fire swept a half-dozen square blocks. By next morning, first count of the raid's toll showed: 40 dead, 150 wounded. Next day at noon, the Japanese returned, again scored heavily in congested residential districts...
Last week Honolulu was fluttering with stories of fifth-column activity. One story was that a display advertisement in a newspaper, ostensibly pushing bargain sales of silk, was actually coded instructions to spies. Another was that a Jap saloonkeeper was shot beside his shortwave transmitter during the Pearl Harbor raid. There were many others, and the average Honolulu citizen did not know which was true and which false. But he did know one thing: fed on tolerance, watered by complacency, the Jap fifth column had done its job fiendishly well-and had not yet been stamped...
Germany said the raid failed, that a British destroyer was sunk, that up to a score of British planes were downed. The story, when it finally came from Britain...
...When the raid ended six hours later, the German center lay in ruins. The British killed 120 German soldiers, captured 95 others and nine Norwegian quislings, destroyed oil tanks, ammunition stores, a factory, a radio station, five merchant ships, two armed trawlers, an armed tug, four planes, a lone Nazi tank. British losses; eleven planes, "superficial" damage to warships, "extremely light" casualties...
...target for air attack in Jarman's bailiwick is, of course, New York City. To defend it in its entirety, Jarman would have to divide the city into 6,000-yd. squares, place an anti-aircraft battery at the corner of each square. But in case of a raid, he will be quite happy if he can protect power plants, aircraft factories, docks and shipyards...