Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never before had there been an incendiary attack of comparable scale. The Luftwaffe's "great fire raid" on the City of London (Dec. 29, 1940), made with a maximum of 200 tons of incendiaries, burned not more than one square mile. Major General Curtis E. LeMay's Marianas firebirds were in another league...
...Puerto Princesa in Palawan, American troops came on the wreckage of the police barracks, where the Japanese had held 150 American prisoners from Bataan. There, as liberation day approached, the Japanese had forced their prisoners into underground air-raid shelters, then poured in gasoline and tossed in torches. A few men had managed to get out, run through spraying Japanese machine-gun fire and escaped. All the rest died...
...Squire & the King. What said the Squire of Hyde Park, schooled at Groton and Harvard, to the Lord of Arabia, schooled in the Koran, the desert, the raid, the running horse, the harem? The only direct news was official, and it was sparse...
...comely virgin who may catch his sickly brown eyes. So far, the only evidence of his age is his growing fondness for talking about the prowess of his youth. A favorite campfire story is about the time when he was wounded in the groin during a desert raid. To spike any calumnies against his manhood, he selected a maiden, married her on the spot, consummated the marriage that night...
...blues, was the captain of the ship; he had small part in the decision reached by Lieut. Colonel James H. Doolittle (at his side) and Vice Admiral William F. Halsey (aboard the nearby carrier Enterprise) to fly 16 B-25 medium bombers off the Hornet for the first stunt raid on Japan's capital...