Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...firsthand-steamed up to Jap-held Vella Lavella to help rescue the cruiser Helena's survivors after the Battle of Kula Gulf - was one of the first five white men to reach Munda airport (he got there 24 hours before our troops marched in) -and in the first raid on Marcus Island he saw three new fighting tools first tested in battle: the Essex class carrier, the Independence type carrier, and the sensational Grumman Hellcat...
...writer in Foreign News was blitzed twice in the Battle of Britain, once in London, where a land mine exploded only 75 feet away - again in the Good Friday raid on Coventry. At home and abroad he was 13 years on the staff of the New York Times, and perhaps you read his book on Gang Rule in New York, which the Times called "an eye-popping Only Yesterday of crime and politics in a flagrant...
...been more than two and a half years since Jimmy Doolittle's small carrier-borne group of B-25s had bombed Tokyo. Since then Japanese authorities had drilled their docile populace in air-raid defenses, warning them incessantly that it might happen again. Last week the warning was justified: the sirens shrilled and the bombs began to fall...
...Manchuria and other northern bases for the last-ditch stand in the Philippines. No air force could stand this rate of attrition. The Japs knew it. But all they could do about it was to speed measures for evacuating eleven of their largest cities and improvising air raid shelters-to be planned within a week and finished within five days thereafter...
...raid was also a reminder that burgeoning U.S. production of Superfortresses had given the Japanese something new and imminent to fear. No Japanese could doubt that the Superfortresses which had already struck from China and India would soon be striking from other bases...