Word: strafes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They finally got a train to take them to Corinth on their way to Athens and, they hoped, a telegraph office. By this time the Germans held the other side of the Gulf and Nazi planes had only a short hop to strafe the railroad on the other side. Their train, barnacled with soldiers on roof and sides, was raked again & again with machine-gun bullets. Three out of four of the reporters who were riding together were wounded, one seriously. St. John says he did not know that he had been shot through the thigh until he finally reached...
...though the world had gone to bed," he adds disgustedly. It was more fun later: "Bombed Brussels and Antwerp again. People were running out of the houses. Trying to escape. . . . Some of them have bicycles. Some are pushing baby carriages. When we get low enough we strafe them. Then they all throw themselves into the ditch on the side of the road. It doesn't help them, though...
...Greeks would be pushovers, in fact would probably welcome Fascism with open arms. When Mussolini spoke, promising that Greece's back would be broken (TIME, Nov. 25), the Greeks continued pressing, working with geography instead of against it. Frantically, the Italians called on their Air Force to strafe and disperse the attackers, and for a day or two there was carnage around Corizza. Then the R. A. F. arrived to bolster the gallant but rickety Greek Air Force. In a few hours, Spitfires and Hurricanes smacked down so many Italians that toward the end of the battle...
...Keitel met and talked strategy. It must have been an embarrassment to both these old soldiers to consider that if the Italians could not knock over the Greeks by themselves, the Germans might have to come in through Yugoslavia. This week Italians sent wave after wave of planes to strafe Greek positions everywhere, and concentrated tanks near the Yugoslav extremity of the border...
Anti-Adlermann Sirs: With reference to Emil Adlermann's letter in [the Sept. 9] issue, p. 4, the "God Strafe England" paragraph stamps him as a Hun and true to type. May I ask him which God is to strafe England? The Christian God-the God of the universe-whom the Nazis have repudiated, or the mythical German gods which Hitler sometimes calls upon...