Word: robombs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...into action in a familiar job. Overseas they manned six stations in South England ports, protected docks. The men wore uniforms, drew Army pay, 20 married British brides. In two years they lost only one man-John Stewart Coull, 37, Winnipeg, who was killed last July by a robomb...
...September, . harassed London breathed a great sigh and shook hands with itself. The Canadian Army had overrun the robomb coast across the Channel: the hellish Things had stopped diving on the city and its environs. A week of blessed peace and quiet followed. Then the Things started coming again...
...whole story about V1, the German flying bomb, was told last week by the British Ministry of Aircraft Production. An ingenious machine that can be built for less than $1,000, the robomb was revealed to be much more accurate than the British had previously cared to admit...
London's Time and Tide reported a delayed buzz-bomb story. In London a robomb hit a house in which an old 'man was taking a bath. Nothing was left but debris, so there did not seem to be much use searching for the body. But rescue squads dug in, presently dug out the old man, dazed but otherwise unhurt, and still sitting in the bathtub. Said he: "I don't know how it happened. I just pulled out the plug and the house blew...
Most Londoners preferred bombs to robombs. At its peak the robomb blitz destroyed or damaged 17,000 houses a day, a destruction rate never equaled in the much longer bomb blitz...