Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...anybody believed the peace rumors that have circulated recently (TIME, Nov. 11), he knew better after what happened in Munich last week. The Royal Air Force made a raid on the city, somehow timed to coincide with Hitler's presence there, and somehow a rack of bombs aimed at the railroad station happened to overshoot its mark. Bombs splattered in Munich's streets. The world-wide broadcast of Hitler's speech was abruptly canceled...
BERLIN (Friday)--An air raid alarm in Berlin ended early today, and Nazi spokesmen said Thursday night's operations over Germany cost the Royal Air Force seven planes, including four shot down over Berlin...
...seemed good to the Athenians that first day. It was like a holiday. Because of air-raid alarms the shops were closed...
London was not entirely spared, however. In one raid 3OO-year-old Kensington Palace, where British monarchs from William III down through the German Georges lived, where Queen Victoria and Queen Mary were born, was damaged...
Glass-jawed Phil Scott, onetime British heavyweight champion, was discovered deep in London rubble, heading a squad of wardens digging out a bombed air-raid shelter. Puffed Fainting Phil as he leaned for a moment on his shovel: "And I used to think boxing was hard work...