Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...capture of the state was like a well-executed Commando raid. Only a few trusted "fifth columnists"-lawyers Mclntyre and David Faries, a brother team who had worked for his election in 1940, and several others-knew that his visit concerned anything more vital than studio business. He did go to the beach home of Darryl Zanuck, Fox production head, for five days of discussion devoted mainly to the script of One World. But Lem Jones, his political secretary, who had accompanied him across the country, took up a position some 15 miles east in the Biltmore Hotel in downtown...
With the capture of Finschhaven, MacArthurs's forces will be separated by only 70 miles of water from horn-shaped New Britain, which points at New Guinea. Liberators in one raid last week pounded the horn's point with 94 tons of bombs-a heavy raid for that theater. Kenney's fighters flew 250 miles from their base to strafe enemy shipping and installations in , the horn's curve. At the horn's far end stands Rabaul, the enemy's key position in the area and the logical climax of the General...
Japan's psychopathic fear of air raids has been mounting steadily since Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo. Propagandists deliberately played on the dread throughout Japan's annual "Aviation Day" last week. Speakers warned the man-in-the-street of raids to come, pleaded for more and better planes. An Army spokesman said-falsely-that Attu was reduced mainly by air action. Another spokesman confessed that an entire Japanese convoy was sunk in the Bismarck Sea last March by Allied bombers. Earlier, a Home Ministry official had told the people that Japan's matchwood houses...
With its usual reticence, the Navy released no details. Targets were Tarawa, important Jap air base, and tiny Nauru. Said the Navy: "Operations were carried out according to plan during the night preceding and a good portion of the day." (The Marcus raid lasted only nine hours.) Said Tokyo: 200 planes made the attack, 20 were shot down...
...Solomons area, the Thirteenth Air Force sent 250 medium and heavy bombers against Bougainville in one day. The Japanese, with recent reinforcements flown in from other bases, made three attempts at retaliation: to minor raids on Guadalcanal, one minor raid on Funafuti. Spokesmen asserted that air patrols had made it impossible for any sizable Jap naval force to remain south of Rabaul for more than 24 hours...