Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...angry as it was revealing. Big bombers and dive bombers stopped flying over Britain almost entirely. In their place went fast light bombers and fighting planes fitted up with racks for a few medium bombs. These droned over high, in small but incessant waves. They made air-raid alarms last longer than ever, interrupting civilian life and preying upon morale more persistently than ever. Bombs were dropped more indiscriminately than ever, yet sometimes with more wickedly calculated aim. For every now & then a lone pilot would cut his motor, glide daringly down and plant his load in a thoroughfare crowded...
London had its 200th raid alarm. Liverpool had its 145th since Aug. 1. Serious spot damage fell upon Liverpool docks, factories, stores, office buildings. People flocked into the Mersey tunnel, risking pneumonia. The industrial Midlands came in for 24 hours of "hammer blows," but a correspondent who had just toured from Newcastle and York through the Midlands reported their production capacity virtually untouched. To raise morale and production, honor badges were issued to aircraft workers who stayed on the job throughout raids...
From neutral nations reports were even stronger. Vichy ruefully declared that several French ports were completely demolished. Letters from Finland reported that as early as August "Essen and Duisburg were suffering badly from the frequency of air-raid alarms," described the razing of whole blocks in Hamburg...
Before he was made a captain he was given the job of liaison officer between the one and only British brigade front (two miles) and the French Army, and terrestrial life began anew. He encountered an amazingly well-organized reconnaissance raid by picked, leather-jacketed German Stosstruppen. There was Christmas Eve dinner with the Black Watch (this war was just one more between the Scots and the Germans). Queen Elizabeth sent them all plum puddings. There was the visit of George VI, when the King held his salute for a battalion of chasseurs a pied until the last little proud...
...name ez Hogner I makun yourn short a pappy, so help me Gawd!" Young Ned Fulton recounts the impact of drought on his father, his sisters, his starving neighbors in their little grey houses. Love interest is Ned's tenderness for Milldy, a mute Ozark urchin. After a raid on the general store, in which Pop Fulton is shot, angry Ned leads the gaunt, drought-mad farmers to the county seat for a sit-down demonstration demanding Federal relief. Upshot is a wild battle between "Red"-fearing townsfolk and desperate rustics. Dozens of both are killed when a building...