Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...London's Big Ben boomed midnight on September's last day, marking the city's two-month holiday from raid warnings, German planes made their fiercest onslaught of many weeks on other British cities...
Britain gave more than it took. In bombing sweeps over the Continent, Wellington, Hampden, Whitley bombers dropped miniature earthquakes on Stuttgart, Stettin, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Nantes, Saint-Nazaire and other towns. A British raid on Boulogne was so heavy that it shook and boomed across the Channel, could be heard plainly in British coastal towns. Air Minister Sir Archibald Sinclair dreamily heralded a British blitz "to prepare the way for advance of the Allied Armies into Germany...
Wells: "I do not think that much-talked-of invasion of Britain can happen now. There may be a raid, but I doubt if it will be much of a raid...
Complete emergency equipment, including special fire hose trucks, equipment for demolition squads, autos for first aid workers, and scores of city deputy wardens, were in readiness for the raid. Chief warden of the Harvard district was Aldrich Durant, business manager of the University...
Questioned after the raid, which lasted from 2:30 to 2:50 o'clock, he expressed satisfaction with the speed and efficiency with which the Harvard forces went to the scene of the damage and discharged their duties. "If an actual raid had been in progress we would have had the situation well under control," he said, "but most of the real credit goes to the well-trained city defense organization...