Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...preparing for civilian defense were under way in New England and New Jersey's suburbs, where small towns had taken affairs into their own hands. There local civilian defense councils had organized men & women into first aid, feeding, fire fighting, decontamination, salvage and emergency police units, air-raid wardens, messengers, even intelligence divisions. Serious small townsmen practiced pistol shooting, sniffed gas, spelled each other through 24-hour days watching for airplanes and flashing reports of everything in the skies to Army Information centers...
Douglas MacArthur was born at an Arkansas Army post. When he was four his mother and a company sergeant sheltered him from an Indian raid. He entered West Point in 1899. MacArthur was First Corporal as a Yearling, Ranking First Sergeant as a Second Classman, First Captain as a First Classman, graduated first in his class, with the highest scholastic record in 25 years, to enter the Army's Corps of Engineers. Between times at the Academy, the legend says, he became engaged to eight different girls...
...cover. The sub fired eight shots from a deck gun, one severing a halyard and the rest whistling overhead, before giving up the chase. Said Captain F. B. Goncalves, safe in port: "If we had only had a gun. ... It was a beautiful target for us." More than the raid on Pearl Harbor, the attacks on the tankers brought to many an unimaginative citizen realization that the U.S. was at war. That war was more tangible than it seemed even on the afternoon...
Jose Iturbi pondered an invitation to direct the Palestine Symphony next summer. Among the inducements: transportation by R.A.F. bomber; "the largest and most luxurious air-raid shelter in the Near East, with marvelous acoustics...
...Anthony Drexel Biddle received a present in London for the relief of child air-raid victims in Hawaii. The present: gs i id in pennies. The donors: child air-raid victims in the East End Youth Hostel...