Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lisbon began deadly serious civil-defense exercises, with blackouts and complete mobilization of defense, first aid and salvage forces. The city suddenly took on a military look, with windows criss-crossed with tape, air-raid wardens patrolling the roofs. Some families began moving to the country...
...three admirals lay the conquest of the world's greatest ocean. For almost two months Pacific Fleet units had been boldly poking into the "hornet's nest," the cluster of Jap bases in the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. Now, as the admirals planned, came word of a raid on the flank of the hornet's nest. A carrier task force, guided by Rear Admiral Alfred E. Montgomery, had shelled and bombed Wake Island, where the Japs finally overran a little band of Marines on Christmas...
...Presumably the submarine knocking on the door last week was American. It had achieved one of World War IPs most daring submarine penetrations of enemy waters, a feat ranking with German Günther Prien's entry at Scapa Flow, the Jap invasion of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. raid in Tokyo...
...Eighth's Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker not been certain the Luftwaffe was being pushed inland, he never would have tried an eight- to ten-hour daylight raid over Germany...
...Hudson and the Navy had bickered over Navy's intent to shift the arsenal away from mass production and to turn it into a gigantic repair shop and manufacturer of "custom-built" Navy products. According to this version the Navy had highhandedly settled the argument by its Commando raid...