Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this, $5,300,000 in cash and kind has gone to the British. Some items: 100 ambulances; 10,000 cases of clothes and knitted goods; 21 X-ray units; 57,500 pairs of boots and shoes; 5,100 cots (with bedding) for air-raid shelters...
Although this outline of German plans from the official Berlin newsagency Dienst Aus Deutschland was undoubtedly partly a raid in the war of nerves, it dovetailed neatly into passages from recent Hitler speeches, into other German hints as to this spring's strategy, and into last week's news. Even the British agreed with the outline-though not with the outcome...
...undertook its longest operational flight of the war last week-nearly 1,800 miles to and from Cracow and Katowice, Poland, where leaflets were dropped. Hard-boiled Air Marshal Sir Charles Portal does not have many illusions about winning friends and influencing people with pamphlets. The raid had more tangible fruits in the way of experience...
...thing, the communiqué announcing the raid did not specify what type of bomber was used. The latest Vickers-Armstrong Wellington bombers claim an effective range of 2,000 miles, with 2,500 pounds of bombs, but if they actually can make such a range, it is curious that they have not been used on missions to Austria, whither many of Germany's war industries have been moved. This raid may have been pulled off by U. S. Flying Fortresses...
Whatever the planes, the lesson of the raid was simple. Its radius described an arc which included all of Germany proper, part of Poland's once-vaunted "industrial triangl," all of Polish Silesia, with its iron and coal mines and munitions factories, all of Bohemia-Moravia, the whole of Austria, Hungary as far as Budapest, and, at the very edge of the arc's lower end, Rome...