Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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CAIRO--Between 200 and 300 persons were killed Saturday night when Axis bombers pounded the great British naval base at Alexandria, in the second all night raid there within four days, it was estimated today...
Aerial reconnaissance warned the British last Thursday that the Bismarck and her escort, the 10,000-ton cruiser Prinz Eugen, had left the Norwegian port of Bergen for a dash for the open sea to raid the Atlantic convoys. Powerful units were at once mobilized to intercept them. At dawn Saturday, she was engaged by the Hood and the Prince of Wales. The Hood was destroyed "with very few survivors" by a lucky hit on her powder magazine at a range of more than 13 miles. But in the battle the Bismarck was slowed down...
...months thereafter, bomb bursts, air-raid sirens and anti-aircraft fire made it impossible to make more than a few brief shots a day. Some of the cast lived on the set, passed much of the day in air-raid shelters and the night in A.R.P...
...went, last week, back & forth, push & counter-push. These giant raids brought out important facts of strategy. In their hasty withdrawal the British had shown the Germans exactly what the Germans wanted the raid to reveal: the British plan of leading the attacker on to Matrûh. On the other hand, the Germans had shown the British that the Nazi attack-broad-fronted, wary of bombardment from the sea, in fanned columns which could flow around hard cores of resistance-would be harder to stop when it came than the Italians' Indian-file dress parade had been...
...Thumbs up," a 35-minute movie vividly portraying the evacuation of Dunkirk, the burning of London, and shots of the British War Relief Society at work mopping up, is followed by "Warning," an official British movie of air raid precautions, actual raids, and the destruction of Nottingham...