Word: robombing
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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Unless, somewhere in the last ditch, the beast's groping paws could find still a new weapon, there was no chance of even one final sally. The rocket coast was all but gone and London had promise of peace at last. Now bombers that had blasted at the robomb sites were free to concentrate on Germany...
...everything, including the German strategy. The crack troops upon which the Germans had relied for orderly withdrawal to a hard line lay buried in the wreckage of the Normandy and Seine traps where the Battle of France had been won. What was left of the armored army guarding the robomb coast...
...robomb-launching coast lay ahead. As the British swung north from the Seine to the Somme, a general said...
West of Paris other elements of Patton's Third and of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army streaked across enlarged bridgeheads over the Seine. Their clear objective: a sweep northward to cut the retreat Allied pilots reported the Germans were making from their robomb coast. A parallel column, 15 miles to the east of Paris, was at the Marne near Lagny...
Between salvos, weary, grimy A.R.P. squads cleared rubble, fought fires, dug out the dead and the living in the worst seven days of the robomb terror. Statisticians totted up averages: each day 108 one-ton robombs were mauling southern England (which meant mostly London), each day they destroyed or damaged 17,000 houses. Only half as many civilians (2,441 a month) were being killed as in the blitz's bloodiest days, but the proportion of seriously injured stood higher. At week's end the capital had a 30-hour respite, broken when a fresh wave of robombs...