Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...make a retaliatory attack, are six heavy bombardment groups and twelve fighter groups. None of them are at V-J day efficiency. The commanders who could once send 820 B-29s rumbling over Japan on a single strike, last month were able to muster only 101 for a practice raid over Manhattan. From a V-J day peak of 85,000 planes, the Air Forces are now down to 9,000 first-line aircraft, and 2,000 to 3,000 of them will pass over to reserve status each year...
Like many another collegian, Charles Ross Greening* had been diverted from his major study (art) at Washington State College to one of his minors (military science). He flew on the Tokyo raid with Doolittle, and was the man who invented the expendable 20? bombsight which Doolittle used instead of the secret (and invaluable) Norden. Afterwards, Greening flew 27 missions over Africa and Italy. After the 27th, in July 1943, he was shot down. He just missed parachuting into the crater of Vesuvius...
...Yorkers who had never seen a real bombing raid were curious but not much impressed. More than anything else, the demonstration recalled a pre-World War II day in 1933, when a mass flight of obsolescent planes of all sizes-the nation's entire air strength at the time-was also considered quite a thing. The 135 Superfortresses were virtually the entire effective heavy bomber strength of the Strategic Air Command...
...like that everywhere. In a recent raid on the farm of one Franz Gutland, near Munich, police found two tons of potatoes, 700 eggs, a slaughtered calf and a cow, 15 tons of wheat, one ton of coal, 1,200 gallons of gasoline, 20 pairs of trousers, 7,000 roof tiles...
...other Jews who apparently were wounded fatally in the raid were found dead in a jeep near Acre...