Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ring made Milch Secretary of Air Traffic. Milch called War Ace Ernst Udet away from the cinema industry and together they built a shadow Luftwaffe. Besides an Air Sport League they recruited the Flying Hitler Youth, 100,000 strong, and an Air Defense League of 11,000,000 (air-raid protection corps, mechanics and maintenance men). They put aviation into the elementary-school curriculum. They taught young Germany to fly gliders. By 1935, when Hitler was ready to build up his Luftwaffe openly, they had man power in training, factories planned, designs developed. These they standardized and limited...
Jostled by bombs, Big Ben-according to jibes of Berlin's imaginative radio propagandists-slipped a cog last week, struck thirteen times during an air raid...
Captured by the German Armies last May was Sir Lancelot Oliphant, British Ambassador to Belgium, a tall dome-headed career diplomat. From Berlin last week came a report that Sir Lancelot, still in custody in northern Germany, stood on his diplomatic prerogatives, flatly refused to go to an air-raid shelter when R. A. F. bombers appeared. "I am the British Ambassador," he snorted, "and I bloody well will not go down when the British planes are overhead...
...some of the ships. Watchers in Algeciras across the bay and in Tangier across the Strait could not tell, but they could see and hear the Rock erupt an inferno of anti-aircraft fire, and they saw no planes come down. Several blazes lit the scene after the heaviest raid and Spanish sources said hits had been made on docks, barracks, the radio transmitter, water tanks, a gun emplacement on Europa Point...
...Alexandria and on the island of Cyprus, they commanded the eastern Mediterranean, keeping open their short trade route to the Orient. This time that route is cut farther west, by Italy in midMediterranean, and the British Fleet protecting the Canal found another function: to threaten Italy in the Mediterranean, raid her supply lines and cut off completely the Italian forces in East Africa (which now includes what once was Ethiopia...