Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week a Moscow children's paper, describing the Moscow Zoo during an air raid, found ostriches, buffaloes and deer scared, lions and bears brave. But they paid special tribute to Moscow's gallant elephants. "When some incendiary bombs fell near by the elephants rushed to the pond, filled their trunks with water and squirted on the bombs until they went...
...main line, made good use of a low semicircle of heights 15 miles to the south of the city. "Still shooting from all barrels," as Nazi correspondents admitted, Marshall Voroshilov's defenders repeatedly counterattacked. He announced that his forces had beaten off a minor German sea raid on the Kronstadt naval base, and claimed the capture of three villages, destruction of over 200 German tanks, 10,000 soldiers, on the outskirts of the defense line...
...gayest invasion of World War II was Britain's raid on Spitsbergen (TIME, Sept. 15). News which Britain let out last week established that fact and by implication a good deal more about the invasion which was undertaken to thwart German plans to seize valuable mines...
Frankly, life goes on much as it did before the war. Dinner may be interrupted by the eerie ululations of the sirens wailing out their warning of a coming raid; if so all unnecessary lights are switched off and the shutters closed before finishing off the coffee. We have grown used to this preliminary warning and pay little attention to it... probably it is only a lost plane trying to slip back to Norway; doubtless it will be shot down over the East Coast; maybe it's a reconnaissance! Somebody looks out to see what the moon is like, returning...
...from the very beginning. The men of Habe's regiment were soft after months of misdirected idleness. Their gas masks were inadequately sealed over the eyes; they had misfit helmets, tattered shoes, antediluvian weapons (Habe used an 1891, 20-lb. Remington). The first mild night air-raid revealed their cowardice: in an inn, when the lights went on again, steel helmets peeped shamefully from beneath the tables. One of dozens of Habe tab leaux: a shamed, helmeted face, trying to laugh it off, beside the knees of a peasant woman who had not moved from her chair...