Word: robotized
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...give up this policy, the probability was that they would try to pull back in Poland and stabilize a new Eastern Front, meanwhile trying to defeat or at least to contain the Normandy invasion. Thus Germany might hope to stay in position to attack British civilian morale with robot bombs and new, secret "vengeance weapons...
...first time since the robot bomb attack started (June 15), London had a few nights free of bomb explosions. But the missiles still came over by day-which the Germans evidently considered more disrupting. Boomed German propagandists: deadlier bombardments are coming -the first month was only a trial for range...
Some of the bombs seemed to be shooting in from a more easterly direction, which might indicate that the German firing crews were moving from the bomb-battered Pas-de-Calais area to other launching sites in Belgium. The Germans talked of even larger robot bombs (six to 20 tons of explosive), claimed ranges that would carry them across the Atlantic...
From the start London knew the robot bomb for what it was-a new weapon of terrible power. It was never something to be shrugged off with British humor and contempt for the bloody Nazis. It was a weapon which struck again & again & again, 18 hours at a stretch. Even its sound-effects were potent: a throaty roar, then a sudden silence when the jet motor stopped and the bomb dived; then the blast. It kept thousands of Londoners in deep shelters. It drove other thousands to the country. It kept thousands, at work aboveground, in a state of sustained...
...Visible War. In the first four weeks, the robots killed 2,752, injured 8,000. Still, the robot's power to disrupt was greater than its power to kill; the rate of casualties during the worst periods of the 1940-41 blitz was twice as high...