Word: robombs
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Dates: during 1944-1944
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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...
Then, for almost four months, Bob Davidson fought his own war against the Germans. From eyewitnesses, he collected detailed robomb data and even drawings. Working with the F.F.I, he cut telephone wires, stretched ropes across highways to trap German dispatch riders. He raided German guard posts to steal guns and documents. "We'd steal explosives and carry them away in sacks. Two or three days later a bridge would blow...
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...
Eisenhower also began to collect royalties in the air. His ground victories, long aided by air supremacy, now freed the airforce from its long task of dumping heavy loads on occupied territory, including the robomb coast. Bombers and fighters in the west now concentrated on Germany itself. Day & night, railroad centers behind the West Wall and industries in central Germany took 1,000-plane doses of bad medicine-all the bad medicine which western Europe had previously had to share. Over Leipzig, while 1,000 bombers bashed oil plants, 800 U.S. fighters got a record battle...
...main U.S. forces, which the Germans had expected in a second invasion on the Calais coast, were deep into Belgium, were knocking at the gates to the Rhineland. Monty's main force, against which the Germans had guarded the most direct route to Paris, was invading the robomb coast-by land...