Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fortnight ago Flying Fortresses from Italy, with Lieut. Gen. Ira Eaker riding along, made history by bombing Rumanian targets and then going on into Russia, where they landed at bases arranged at the Teheran Conference. Last week they made more history by running off the first U.S. bombing raid from Russian soil-a heavy strike at the Rumanian Danube port of Galati...
This week General Eaker and his shut-tiers, after another bombing raid in the Balkans, were back at their home fields. The shuttle plan would soon be routine...
...Rommel's supply lines in North Africa. In the U.S. Ninth Air Force Dick Sanders rose to be bomber-command chief of staff, later a group commander. He won the D.F.C. for "extraordinary achievement ... in the Middle East theater," added a Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster for leading a raid on Naples. Now the Ninth is in England-chewing up Rommel again- and General Sanders is its bomber-command administrative officer...
...Spaatz, called them the "aerial bandits." But the Germans themselves had established the first bombing standards for World War II. In the celebrated blitz of 1940-41, German planes attacked Britain with an average of 200 tons of bombs a night for about 100 nights. The "measuring stick" raid on Coventry saw about 275 tons fall in seven hours...
Carrie Nation's Raid...