Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second bruise is communications. The campaign in the east has required so much of German rolling stock that increasing amounts of traffic have had to sneak by sea. The Rotterdam raid was one answer. Fortnight ago the R.A.F. claimed 21 ships of 81,000 tons. Continued raids on German convoys along the invasion coast have added to the toll. In five months it claims to have sunk 300,000 tons of German shipping (not counting an equal tonnage seriously damaged). This is nearly 40% of the German shipping losses for the period, and the biggest R.A.F. raids in shipping have...
Furthermore, the offensive was expensive. The London Daily Mail recently estimated the cost of a single night raid of 300 bombers over the Ruhr as follows: gasoline and oil, $13,280; losses, allowing three planes shot down, $240,000; bombs, $720,000; maintenance on planes, $210,000 Total...
...honor had been bestowed-His Majesty said: "I will be able to tell my daughters that I have seen you and talked to you today, and they will be very thrilled. They are always asking me questions about how you are getting on." The British began to follow air-raid box scores as they used to follow soccer and cricket news. They considered the return of the German Air Force to the west as a triumph for the R.A.F., though it meant trouble. They stopped worrying about being invaded, resting on the hope that after the Russian battle Adolf Hitler...
Without panic Muscovites went about organizing air-raid shelters and A.R.P. units, but the shelters themselves were scarce and hastily thrown together at ground level, offering little real protection. For Soviet higher-ups was reserved Moscow's only safe shelter, the 100-foot-deep Kirovskaya Metro station...
...England, more air-raid conscious than other parts of the country, felt more secure last week. With a minimum of red fire, the U.S. Navy commissioned the mightiest fortress in New England's once thin aerial defenses. At Quonset Point, R.I., on the western shore of Narragansett Bay, Commander Andrew C. McFall listened to a few speeches, then took com mand of the Navy's newest and one of its largest air stations. The colors were hoisted, the watch set, and Quonset Point buckled down to work...