Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...raid had multiple purposes: to ferret out illegal material such as weapons, ammunition, radio transmitters, U.S. uniforms and rations, gasoline; to catch Nazis; to turn up U.S. AWOLs (only a handful); to inhibit black-market operations. A secondary purpose was to test the occupation army's security machinery. It tested very well. Orders for the raid (Codeword: "Tallyho") were distributed three weeks in advance. There were no leaks...
Many of the Germans arrested had simply failed to provide themselves with proper credentials, but a considerable number of SS members were nabbed. There were no signs of any organized conspiracy. The G-2 (intelligence) officer in charge of the raid remarked that it "upset the civilian population quite a bit-which is a good thing...
...first full-scale raid ever made against the city, more than 200 Okinawa-based Liberators, Mitchells and Thunderbolts strafed and bombed Shanghai's harbor and airfields. No. 1 target, hit with 300 tons of explosives, was Kiangwan airdrome, containing 15 major hangars, four concrete bomber runways, and the biggest concentration of Jap planes in China. Next day the planes went back again. On neither trip were the Americans challenged by fighter opposition...
...Dudman - previously reported missing, now known to have been killed on operation, June 11, 1944, Pilot Officer James Dudman. These three were the sons of William James and Nora Dudman who were killed by enemy action [air raid], Baling, September...
Collapse of a Dream. Rhodes had no doubts on this point. In an ill-starred moment he financed and supported the famed "Jameson Raid," in which a band of armed adventurers invaded the South African Republic. The Raid failed miserably. But it shocked the world. For Rhodes, the failure of Jameson's Raid was a catastrophe. The British Government repudiated him; he resigned from the Cape Parliament, of which he was Prime Minister. His dream of all Africa as a British colony collapsed, and along with it his plans for a "secret society" of wealth and brains that would...