Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such bombing has not taken place in previous years because the air fleets required to deliver it were not in existence. But even three months ago such a tonnage could not have been dropped in one week. For three months ago the Luftwaffe was fighting every raid with all it had-many bombers were shot down, and many so shot up that they required extensive repairs. Again & again the R.A.F. and Eighth Air Force had to take several days off to lick their wounds-and they cannot take much time out if they are to deliver 16,000 tons...
...Tactic. This new German plan of campaign has been accompanied by a new German air raid warning system called the Drahtfunk, which has apparently been set up to bolster civilian morale. The Drahtfunk provides constant radio reports of the progress of air raids and allays anxiety in other districts by reporting those which are in danger...
London caught its longest air raid in many months, as German planes whisked over the city for an hour. The Nazis were using their new tactics, approaching at high altitude, dumping their bombs indiscriminately, then diving to build up maximum speed for the getaway. Bomb loads ran heavily to incendiaries, presumably to start many scattered fires, keep the air-raid wardens and firefighters on the run. London's thundering gun-and-rocket barrage shot down at least eight raiders out of an estimated 80. That same night, more than 1,000 R.A.F. bombers gave Berlin 2,800 tons...
...trucks chugged up the mountainside, began the evacuation of some 17,000 people. From San Sebastiano, Massi di Somma and Cercola, the homeless and their meager belongings were carted downslope to emergency shelter and food. In the lava-lit darkness, while grimy soldiers struggled to unsnarl traffic, an air raid alarm sounded. Men doused lights, but Vesuvius paid no heed...
There was lunch with his wife, Donna Rachele, Son Vittorio, Son Bruno's widow and daughter. Then an hour of chess and strolling through the grounds, not too far from the Nazi Elite Guard or the air-raid shelter hewn from solid rock...