Word: swansea
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ports and their installations, on airfields, troop camps, towns and villages. In fire raids on London, the Nazis reversed previous tactics, now dropping explosives before incendiaries, hoping to make fire fighters lie low while fires caught on. For three bad nights in a row, the South Wales port of Swansea took a pasting. On two successive days, the Germans tried daylight attacks on Hell's Corner, much like those of last autumn. The British claimed they failed...
...From Swansea, in Glamorganshire, to Southend at the mouth of the Thames, and all along the south coast of Britain, last week newsmen had passably good seats at the Battle of Britain. At Dover was the greatest concentration. Newsmen in tin hats and civilian clothes took their stand on Shakespeare Cliff, high above the English Channel, sat on camp stools and shooting sticks while British and German planes fought in the sky, amused themselves in slack intervals by giving names to Dover's roly-poly barrage balloons: King Lear, Lord Castlerose, Göring (painted with medals), Puddin...