Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Paradise Lost, Book II. After an early, accurate raid on Bristol by night, British fliers spotted a line of small red lights, shielded so as to be visible only from directly above, leading straight to the harbor piers...
...Made a concentrated raid on the British coastal Army base of Mersa Matruh, end of the Egyptian railroad toward Libya...
...their guns in Cairo ?a sure sign that Egypt expected an Italian attack soon, since Australians were not wanted in Egypt after their too hearty conduct there in the last war. Other Australians, in mechanized units, saw their first action of this war when they made a border raid near Italian-held Kassala, in the Sudan. This raid was a sign the rains were ending...
...week, the Italians claimed extension of their drive into Kenya Colony to include Fort Polignac on Lake Rudolf in the north and Buna, a British air base 60 miles south of Moyale, one of the preliminary keys to the capture of Nairobi. The British retorted with a satisfying raid by the South African Air Force, which swooped on Mogadiscio, main port of Italian Somaliland, and blasted "hundreds" of military trucks assembled there for the Kenya push...
...each town the Philharmonic visited. Although his ?10,000 might have said, with authority, that he could conduct, he did not do so. Dr. Malcolm Sargent, who did, put a symphony on each program, played also light classics but "no rubbish." Up to last week only one air raid disturbed a concert. The Philharmonic played right through it. The orchestra's nucleus of 65 oldish players was periodically eked out by men on leave from air-raid and home-defense forces, as well as nine enlisted members. But the Philharmonic was worried because English Horn Peter Newbury, London...