Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...since the Army decided that there was no longer any point in 24-hour watches for amateur air spotters. The Office of Civilian Defense had been without a boss since James M. Landis went off to boss U.S. economics in the Middle East (TIME Aug. 16). Many an air-raid warden was beginning to lose that first fine passion for his helmet and whistle. But OCD, with a $4 million budget and 850 employes, urged every man to keep on his toes. There might still be need, said OCD, for all the equipment it had delivered or requisitioned...
...between total darkness and every movie marquee ablaze) would help save electricity and fuel; 2) Army & Navy men warned that if enemy submarines should crop up in force again off U.S. coasts, out the lights must go; 3) OCD officials promised that there would still be an occasional air-raid drill...
...Schwerin a German railwayman named Ulrich Middelborg was executed for taking food from a freight car. At Hamburg an air-raid warden went to the gallows for taking a few yards of blackout cloth from a bombed house. At Hindenburg, in Upper Silesia, Bank Manager Georg Miethe was put to death for conversation which "failed to set an example of loyalty for his employes...
...will be "the base of operations for planes larger than any which have heretofore been operated from the decks of aircraft carriers." This, said Knox, meant planes bigger than the B-25s which left the Hornet to raid Tokyo. Actually, the Mitchells did not "operate" from the carrier they merely took off. But by the time the CVBs are finished (18 to 24 months from keel laying) there will be newer and bigger planes to make full use of their spreading flight decks...
...Reims raid Navigator Davisson had plotted his course by dead reckoning; he and Pilot Iverson had only one objective-to bring their close-packed bomber formation to a predetermined spot called the I.P. (Initial Point). Then the bombardier took over...