Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blare Raid. In Chicago, sleepless David Walanka reported a blaring horn to police, who found a short-circuited horn in the parked car of David Walanka...
...Asaka, who stood by at the rape of Nanking and subsequently at the "Death March" from Bataan. In 1941, Higashi-Kuni was put in charge of the important home defense command. In that post he is said to have threatened the execution of U.S. airmen after the famed Doolittle raid on Tokyo...
From the start, he was no communiqué commando. He made his first flight into enemy territory on the same Eighth Air Force raid on Wilhelmshaven in which the New York Times's Bob Post was killed. At Anzio the Germans shot out his bathtub when he wasn't in it; after Dday, planes strafed a rubber boat he was in, and missed again...
Captain John survived the Liscome Bay's sinking off Makin Island in late 1943, Captain Henry, only non-flyer among the Annapolis-trained brothers, commanded a destroyer division, participating in many a Pacific raid. Lieut. Commander Quentin, youngest (27) of the five, bosses a fighter squadron aboard a Pacific carrier...
Rationed Cabbage Leaves. Everybody raises vegetables, even in window boxes, or in boxes inside houses or in air-raid trenches. Last March the cabbage ration was one cabbage leaf per person every three days...