Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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ATHENS--The Italian air force has been "swept from the skies" over Albania by British and Greek fighter planes, a Government spokesman said tonight in reporting the shattering of a strong Fascist tank attack near Tepelini. German Warships Raid Here...
...important issue. Indirect benefits to Germany are enormous. According to William Agar of Columbia "ten shiploads of wheat, say 50,000 tons, would release about 187,000 tons of potatoes, from which the Germans could make 17,000 tons of alcohol . . . enough fuel for 500 planes to raid London nightly for two months...
Shortly after the Castellorizo raid, another force was said to have turned the same stunt on little Caso Island, in the Dodecanese near Crete...
...Britain the raid did much to offset the depression caused by Nazi successes in the Balkans. The raiders were greeted as heroes. They reached home laden with souvenirs: framed photographs of Hitler and Goring, swastikas, the flag of the supply ship. The proud possessor of the flag spread it across his chest and said: "The hardest fight I had was to get this flag, and the fellows who provided the competition were my comrades...
Sirens had sounded. Most of London had descended into shelters, but to those in the cabaret, time seemed too dear to squander underground. Bombs began to fall near by: it was London's worst night raid in weeks. The orchestra played Oh, Johnny a little louder...