Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope), International Brigade air squadron leader in the Spanish Civil War, tank corps veteran of the 1940 Battle of France, reported killed by the Nazis, turned up again as leader of 1,000 Maquis in the Limoges district. He had been captured by the Gestapo, freed by a patriot raid, and served as a liaison officer between the F.F.I, and the British...
...first big coups took place in the dead of night when he led 29 men through a maze of picket lines to the headquarters of Brigadier General Edwin H. Stoughton, captured the whole post. First thing the Union General knew about the raid was when Mosby pulled up his nightshirt, slapped him on the behind...
...Special Service Force was born during a visit by General George Catlett Marshall to Prime Minister Churchill at Chequers in 1942, and a glamorous career was laid out for it. It was to be used in a suicide raid on hydroelectric plants in Norway. Later its mission was changed to simultaneous paratroop raids on key power plants scattered through Europe. Another gleam in the planners' eyes: a parachute raid on Berchtesgaden to kill Adolf Hitler...
...there was an even bigger reason than efficiency and morale to make the Army raid its own desks. Manpower at home has already been heavily drained. Within its own forces the Army has probably the largest pool of able-bodied young men the U.S. has left...
...also left behind them a unit of 1,500 Germans. Soon these were probing through to the village again. Flag-decked Plouvien maddened the German commander. He sent shells screeching into the crowded streets. The Plouviennois left their dead and wounded in the rubble, streamed into their few air-raid tunnels. Then the Germans drove into the village, looted the shell-torn homes and shops of wine...