Word: sheltering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the outskirts American troops could hear the Germans setting off demolition charges. One night the Nazis tried to sneak valuable technicians and equipment out in seven merchant ships. British torpedo boats caught them, sank two, damaged three more, chased the convoy to shelter in the Channel Islands...
Hard Knocks for Civilians. The number of civilians hurt and killed might have been even less, said Minister Morrison, if people had not been gawping at the sky during day attacks when they ought to have sought shelter...
...other hand, it was noted that more people were seeking nightly shelter in the subways than at any time since the great blitz of 1940-41. And Minister Morrison warned that the robot barrage might not yet have reached its peak...
Military experts observed that the robot might be regarded as a parallel to the famed Pariser Kanone of World War I, which shelled Paris at extreme range (76 miles) and disconcerted many people without affecting the outcome of the struggle in the slightest. An elderly Englishman in a shelter ticked the robot off more tersely...
...windows of our two houses: "Avioni-airplanes!" Talbot and I, sharing the same room, jumped into our clothes, ran out, took a look at the skies and made for the slit trench on a bare mound some 100 yards away. No sooner had the four of us reached the shelter than bombs from 15 planes began exploding around us. Sizzling bomb fragments whizzed into the trench beside my right shoulder. About 30 more large, low-flying planes arrived and, just as Fowler was filming the dive of a Stuka, brownish parachutes flapped open no more than 200 feet above...