Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hungry citizens of Akita, in northwestern Honshu, complained that nine days after the surrender the community vegetable garden was torn up to make way for a new air-raid shelter. City officials explained that funds for the shelter had been provided by the central government, and that spending the money for anything else would create a difficult bookkeeping problem...
...from any word of the world outside the barbed-wire. Said Chaplain R. S. Waldrop: "These copies are a Godsend, for these men are as hungry for news as they are for food and medical aid." A B-29 crew man shot down in a big fire raid last spring had a different angle...
...plane, dog sled or canoe until a road was built. Beer was $1 a bottle. A town census registered 46 different nationalities. Shady characters prospered like green bay trees. In 1936, the first year that Val D'Or had a police force, Chief Leo Therien led a raid through the town's 300 unpainted board-and-tarpaper shacks, arrested 112 prostitutes, gamblers and bootleggers. Only 61 could be held, because no more could be jammed into the town's 25 ft. by 25 ft. log jail...
...date was Dec. 14, 1944. The place was Puerto Princesa in the Philippines. On that date in that place Jap guards drove 150 U.S. prisoners into air-raid tunnels, emptied gasoline into the tunnel openings and set them afire. The victims, enveloped in flames and screaming in agony, swarmed from the shelters. As they did, they were bayoneted or machine-gunned. About 40 who threw themselves over a 50-ft. cliff onto a beach were attacked by sentries on the shore. Many, moaning in agony, were buried alive...
...commandeered Laurence to write the official releases which explained the bomb. He watched the famed July 16 experiment in the New Mexico desert. Then the Army packed him off to the Pacific, to fly over Nagasaki. Last week, at last, the Army released his account of the Nagasaki raid. Thirty days after it happened, it was still top page-one news in the New York Times, and in many another paper...