Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...broadcaster thus described the havoc wrought by last fortnight's great B-29 fire raid on the Japanese capital. U.S. airmen gave much of the credit to a new type of incendiary bomb called...
...Germans had little with which to counter, except their greatly increased flak concentrations-now more a menace than the Luftwaffe. Over battered Berlin, against the U.S. 1,300-bomber raid, the Germans sent up the biggest flak barrage Eighth Air Force men had ever seen, along with the biggest show of buzzing, jet-propelled fighters. Their great speed swirled them through bomber formations, but U.S. gunners got some of them. The cost: 25 bombers, five fighters...
...rule, half the heavy bombers used on a strike are ready to fly again four days later. It was downright miraculous that a high proportion of the Superfortresses used in the first two strikes were ready for use again at Osaka, again at Kobe, and in a repeat raid on Nagoya-all within ten days. Some of LeMay's ground crews on Saipan, Tinian and Guam, worked 48 hours nonstop to compass this miracle...
...Communist Party has always declared that it was not connected with the Communist Movement. But when police raided the latter's headquarters some time ago and found bombs and machine guns walled up and hidden, prominent Communists violently, protested against the raid. Police officials concluded that the official Communists and the Communist Movement were unofficially linked...
Died. Dorothea Wieck (rhymes with sheik), 37, fragile, sad-eyed German cinemactress (Maedchen in Uniform), whose 1933 Hollywood visit was cut short by inept roles and whisperings that she was a Nazi spy; in an Allied air raid (according to German report); in Dresden, Germany...