Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...morning of Sept. 27, 1940 A.D., which corresponds to the 18th year of the Fascist Era and the 15th year of Showa (the reign of Japan's Emperor Hirohito), dawned clear and quiet in Berlin. There had been no air raid the night before and His Excellency Señor Don Ramón Serrano Suñer, Spain's Minister of Government and Falangist Party Leader, had had a good night's sleep. Don Ramón, who had been a visitor in Berlin for nearly three weeks, had, as usual, very little...
...General certainly believed what he said so far as it went, but Britain was undoubtedly under serious strain, with Londoners growing impatient under air bombing, and the growing danger of epidemics as multitudes live in air-raid shelters...
Answers. All this pressed hard against the heart of Winston Churchill. Both from the military and the humane point of view, the shelter problem was of first importance. By his own choice the Prime Minister was grossly overworked. Besides daily War Cabinet meetings, raid or no raid, besides reading and editing some 100 State papers, he took all the civilian grievances on his own hunched shoulders. He knew how dangerous they were. He knew that excessive preoccupation with them was just the precondition for invasion which Adolf Hitler wanted...
Similar were the experiences of the Duke's brother, King George. One day, after having the Prime Minister to lunch, he went during the afternoon raid, in the uniform of Admiral of the Fleet, to call on A. V. Alexander, who is King at the Admiralty. There he saw the latest Admiralty maps and charts, read its latest wireless reports on the activities of the Royal Navy...
...veterans will see World War I prison camp money, food ration tickets, postal card propaganda and zeppelin air raid pictures. German thin paper nocks are shown, advertised an providing "excellent, protection for the foot against cold and front...