Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even if all had been well about defense, finances and air-raid shelters, President Quezon would still have felt pain about Commissioner Sayre. Artful Manuel Quezon got whatever he wanted from Commissioner Frank Murphy, played poker with Paul McNutt, but cannot get around superconscientious Francis Sayre...
...night last week a small group of black-uniformed, tough British soldiers, faces, hands and soft-soled gym shoes appropriately blackened, made a successful hit-&-run raid on the German-held coast of French Normandy, but they took a beating at home...
Details of the raid and what it accomplished were withheld, but Germany grudgingly conceded a British thrust into occupied territory and said coldly that the attacking forces were repelled with heavy losses. Britain's Ministry of Information replied smugly that the raiding party returned intact with one lone casualty-a man shot in the arm. The Commandos-small, hardened, specially trained shock-invasion troops, who have raided enemy territory from Norway to Africa-had struck again successfully...
After four years of unceasing war, Japan prepared anew for war. Floodlights cut white arcs through Tokyo's dark as work on inadequate air-raid shelters went on around the clock. Men were at work in one corner of the Palace grounds. No one could see what they were doing, but a good guess was that they were building an air-raid shelter for the Emperor. Laborers studded Japan's other big cities with antiaircraft guns...
...tory. Newsreels had shown heaps of Chinese dead, never a Japanese body. But even victory had pinched Japan. Last week, as for many, many weeks, rice was rationed and bread, when available, was sour and heavy with acorn flour. Press notices warned: "Vegetable-Hungry People Not To Raid Fields in City's Suburbs...