Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brigadier General La Verne ("Blondy") Saunders launched the Twentieth Bomber Command on the heaviest aerial assault yet staged from Asiatic bases. He threw his full striking power into a 24-hour assault; he challenged the defensive reserves of the Jap air force with the first daylight raid on the homeland-the kind of mission for which the Superfortress was designed...
...daylight blow, four planes were lost to enemy action; all the planes in the night raid returned to their bases. The Twentieth had paid heavily in men and material to ascertain what the Imperial Air Force could do to defend its homeland. But if this was the Jap's best, it was not good enough...
...lively P.G.A. revival dates back 18 months to what Fred Corcoran, round-faced P.G.A. tournament manager, calls his "noble experiment." Just after U.S. tournaments were theoretically given up for the duration, Corcoran went to Britain. He saw Britons crowding the ancient St. Andrews links the morning after an air raid, the game proceeding as usual along bomb-pocked fairways. He made up his mind to follow the British lead...
...colleagues in the center and the north. When winter came and a disappointed Hitler assumed direction of the war, Rundstedt was hustled off to France to prepare for possible British invasion. For two years he built his fortifications and trained his none-too-ample forces. He stopped the Dieppe raid. He failed to stop the invasion of Normandy. He also disagreed sharply with Hitler's favorite Rommel, was relieved of his command one month after Dday...
...right. The raid was a phase of the Navy attack on nearby Saipan. The bombers appeared often after that. Hysterical Japs began cutting off the heads of natives who even looked at the sky. Then one day at last Tweed saw what he had been waiting for two and a half years-the lean, grey ships of the U.S. Navy...