Word: raids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Words Away. Before the last bomb had fallen in the first raid on the Eternal City, the Allies broadcast the news. Thereby they scored first in a violent battle of propaganda that was certain to develop. The world-particularly the Catholic world inside and outside the Axis fortress -was told how Allied airmen carefully trained for this mission, how they studied huge maps, absorbed repeated instructions, took unusual risks in daylight, all to avoid as far as possible the damaging of religious and cultural buildings. Many of the airmen-as many as possible-were Catholics and aboard their planes were...
...during a raid on the Nazi U-boat pens at St.-Nazaire, his bomber. Fortress 649, was badly hit and burst into flame. The fire sweeping the fuselage drove the radio operator and both waist gunners to "bail out. Emerging from his turret, Snuffy cast aside his own parachute, tackled the fire with extinguishers and water bottles. When he had used them up, he beat out the last flames with his hands. Meantime, he had contrived to man both waist guns in turn, helped to beat off harrying Focke-Wulfs and given first aid to the wounded tail gunner...
...Press), one of the best of all war reporters, went in with the Canadians and scooped the world. His copy, filed via Malta and London, was the first eyewitness story out of Sicily. It beat every U.S. correspondent by hours. Canadians, recalling how the Hearst press misplayed the Dieppe raid (which Munro covered) as an American adventure, felt compensated...
...month after the raid when the Japanese got too close and the flyers had to move out of Dr. C.'s hospital. Somehow the Chinese always came up with a vehicle, hurried them on their way. At Choo Chow Lishui (where Lawson had planned to land after bombing Tokyo) the airport was blown up. At Nanching the field was destroyed. They pulled into Hengyang, pushed on to Kweilin. The Flying Tigers had already moved...
Because Thirty Seconds is the most striking record of the Doolittle raid on Tokyo, it will reopen arguments of what was gained, what lost, by that bold adventure. Captain Lawson's book will not settle the dispute. Readers may feel, however, that it settles more important matters. It leaves no doubt about the fighting, tough, quietly heroic qualities of U.S. flyers; even less doubt that the Chinese are a unique, agelessly wise, able and benevolent people...