Word: spotters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...another raid Broadcasting House was hit again. First seen by a spotter on the roof, Bomb No. 2 was announced to the A. R. P. control room in the basement with the comment: "There is one coming so close I could almost catch it." After the bomb exploded beside the already damaged building, the control room gibed to the spotter: "Butterfingers." Score for Bomb No. 2: Policeman John Charles Vaughn, recently engaged to Jean Orr Ewing, daughter of Brigadier General Sir Norman Archibald Orr Ewing...
...beginning of the Luftwaffe the decision on stopping busses in a raid was left to the judgment of the individual drivers. Few stopped. Today none stop until a street "spotter" gives the signal...
Fighter aircraft raced aloft to shoot down a Nazi reconnaissance plane that appeared overhead as a target spotter. In an hour and 20 minutes the Germans sent over 108 shells, but without "eyes" their shooting grew ragged and not one ship...
...south and east headlands scarcely needed to look up to identify skein after skein of German aircraft which, from bases in Nazified France, swept over the Channel and swooped upon British shipping or soared on over Britain to bomb inland objectives. So experienced had many a British "spotter" become that by ear he could tell a squadron of death-pregnant German Heinkels, going out to work, from a flight of British Blenheims returning from work. Meanwhile the Germans adopted new technique: sending a swift, lone leader at high altitude to lay a smoke trail to the objective, which the bombers...