Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Through that day and the following days, the Jap struck in many places from the air. He bombed Nichols Field, just south of Manila, time & again; in one raid alone he lost eleven planes. He struck at Cavite, the Navy's base on Manila's south harbor; there he wrought heavy damage, barely missed the base's commander, weather-beaten Rear Admiral Francis Rockwell...
Beyond the International Date Line, where it is always tomorrow, Wake lifts itself in three desolate sandy specks in the midst of a watery nowhere. A Clipper stop on Pan Am's famed trans-Pacific run, it boasted a small hostel, an imposing concrete air-raid shelter recently built, a catch basin for rain water, a hydroponic tank for growing vegetables, which the coral sand refuses to nurture...
That job done, U.S. armed forces might raid Formosa, clamp down the blockade of Japan that strategists have long envisioned, and, if Russian air bases were put at U.S. disposal, might bomb Japan's main naval and industrial establishments. From Alaska the U.S. Navy might punch air raids into Japan's northern advance base at Paramoshiri Island, south of the Kamchatka peninsula. From Guam and Wake, regained, U.S. Army and Navy Air Forces could bomb the Japanese mandated islands and begin to forge a chain that would be stout and confining...
...Angeles Times started a new classified-advertising section called "Defense Aids." A Manhattan department store used half a newspaper page to advertise air-raid whistles, asbestos gloves, first-aid kits, rubber boots, flashlights, axes, shovels, a 100-lb. sack of sand...
...broadcasting companies at week's end were nearly acclimatized to wartime. Guards stood at their control rooms and transmitters. All NBC employes were fingerprinted. In the 2nd Corps Area (N.Y., N.J., Del.) the Army decreed: "the public press and radio broadcasting stations form no part of the air-raid warning system." All-night tricks for announcers were discontinued. President Neville Miller of the National Association of Broadcasters wired all stations to "report war news calmly, slowly and deliberately, so as to avoid horror, suspense and undue excitement...